I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
Fyodor DostoevskyPower is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
Fyodor DostoevskyThe whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.
Fyodor DostoevskyTimes of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Fyodor DostoevskyWhat can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
Fyodor Dostoevsky