Jun 16, 2011

Few quotes from Crime and Punishment

"Reason is the slave of passion"

"a hundred suspicions don't make a proof."

"If there's a hundredth part of a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble, But  if all to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction. It may be a coarse, satisfaction, but still a satisfaction, And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true. That's so so for all stages of development and classes of society."

Criminals

"I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving some new word, must from their very nature be criminals-more or less, of course. Otherwise it's hard for them to get out of the common rut; and to remain in the common rut is what they can't submit to, from their very nature again, and to my mind they ought not, indeed, to submit to it. "

Logic in Nature

"You can't skip over the nature by logic. Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions! Cut away a million, and reduce it all to the question of comfort! That's the easiest solution of the problem! It's seductively clear and you musn't think about  it. That's the great thing, you musn't think! The whole secret of the life in two pages of print!"

True Colors and Followers...

"We've grown used to having everything ready-made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors."

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better that a bird."