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Nonsense Exemplified
This has some sense in it. . . .though. . . .
This has some sense in it. . . .though. . . .
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
Here's what every teen needs to tell his/her parents. . . ..
“To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The Progressive Paradox
This could be the mantra of all government overseers of the masses in their unappreciated labors for the welfare of mankind:
This could be the mantra of all government overseers of the masses in their unappreciated labors for the welfare of mankind:
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
When I started reading Dostoyevski, it was the most tedious and disinteresting thing I had ever encountered in life. But I had a class to get an A in, so I had to do it. I have to admit, it felt filthy. . . . all these people with bizarre psychological issues. . .. and thoughts. . . . .
It was my first dawning understanding of humanity, as we are rather than as we are supposed to be. .. . . .
It was my first dawning understanding of humanity, as we are rather than as we are supposed to be. .. . . .
Christianity Preached From Novels to Socialists
A lot of scholars have written dissertations trying to explain Dostoyevski. They fail miserably, universally. . . .. because they try to make an intellectual out of him. They try to make him one of them.
I had read the Bible already, maybe nearly as much as he had. . . . .which is to say my bible was marked up almost as much as his was.
His work is essentially a re-statement of Christianity, particularly the Christianity of Paul, for the people of his day, which is to say, essentially, us. . . .. because the Russia he knew is so much like the America we are.
In the hands of "progressives".
The "Possessed".
A lot of scholars have written dissertations trying to explain Dostoyevski. They fail miserably, universally. . . .. because they try to make an intellectual out of him. They try to make him one of them.
I had read the Bible already, maybe nearly as much as he had. . . . .which is to say my bible was marked up almost as much as his was.
His work is essentially a re-statement of Christianity, particularly the Christianity of Paul, for the people of his day, which is to say, essentially, us. . . .. because the Russia he knew is so much like the America we are.
In the hands of "progressives".
The "Possessed".
some of us are sometimes kinda smart. . . . maybe me sometimes, too. .. . I've come up from being, perhaps, pretty sure I knew a lot, so much I could hardly be told anything else, because of the immense masses of certainty I possessed.
But then a break came, and things opened up a bit. I learned to laugh at it all.
But then a break came, and things opened up a bit. I learned to laugh at it all.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky