Rereading Dostoevsky

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

A little distracted from the fascinating and generally accepted occupation of tracking and discussing news events, which, by and large, are purposefully formed by the masters of the media, including the Internet, in order to manipulate public consciousness, I turned to reading the works of one of the greatest writers and connoisseur of human souls, in our reality, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.

And there was a desire to share with readers some fragments of Dostoevsky's texts, over which it sometimes makes sense to ponder, and to ponder to the fullest.

"The secret consciousness of power is unbearably more pleasant than overt domination." F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

“Many of the very proud people love to believe in God, especially the few who despise people. Many strong people seem to have some kind of natural need - to find someone or something, before bowing down. It is sometimes very difficult for a strong person to endure his strength. " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

“… It is impossible to love people the way they are. And yet it should. And therefore, do them good, holding your feelings together, pinching your nose and closing your eyes (the latter is necessary). Transfer evil from them, not getting angry with them as much as possible, "remembering that you are a human being." Of course, you are set to be strict with them, if you are given to be even a little smarter than the middle. People are by nature low, and love to love out of fear; do not fall for such love and do not cease to despise. Somewhere in the Qur'an, Allah commands the prophet to look at the "obstinate" as mice, to do good to them and pass by - a little proudly, but surely. Know how to despise even when they are good, because more often than not, this is where they are bad. " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

“He who is just a little bit stupid cannot live and not despise himself, whether he is honest or dishonorable - it is all the same. It is not possible to love your neighbor and not despise him. In my opinion, man was created with the physical impossibility of loving his neighbor. There is some mistake in words, from the very beginning, and “love for humanity” must be understood only for that humanity that you yourself created in your soul (in other words, you created yourself and love for yourself) - and which therefore it will never really be. " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

"… I knew very much that such" escaped "praise is valued higher by a woman than any elaborate compliment." F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

“… Not only father and son, but everyone can’t talk to a third person about their relationship to a woman, even the most pure ones! Even the cleaner, the more there should be a ban! It is sickening, it is rude …”F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

“Jump out a Russian person a little bit out of the state, legalized for him by custom, rut - and he doesn't know what to do right now. In the rut, everything is clear: income, rank, position in society, crew, visits, service, wife - and just what - what am I? Leaf blown by the wind. I do not know what to do!" F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

"Whom you love more, you insult the first one." F. M. Dostoevsky. “Teenager” “I think that when a person laughs, in most cases it becomes disgusting to look at him. More often than not, in the laughter of people, something vulgar is found, something as if destroying the laughing person, although the laughing person himself almost always knows nothing about the impression he makes. An extraordinary number of people do not know how to laugh at all. However, there is nothing to be able to do here. It is a gift and you cannot give it away. If you do it by re-educating yourself, developing yourself for the better and fighting the bad instincts of your character: then the laughter of such a person, very likely, could change for the better. With laughter, another person betrays himself, and you suddenly recognize all his ins and outs. Even an undeniably clever laugh is sometimes disgusting. Laughter requires, first of all, sincerity, but where is sincerity in people? Laughter requires good-naturedness, and people often laugh viciously. Sincere and harmless laughter is fun, but where in our age is fun and do people know how to have fun? The cheerfulness of a person is the most outstanding trait of a person, with legs and arms. Only with the highest and happiest development can a person have fun communicatively, that is, irresistibly and good-naturedly. I'm not talking about his mental development, but about character, about the whole person. So: if you want to examine a person and recognize his soul, then delve into not how he is silent, or how he speaks, or how he cries, or even how he worries about the noblest ideas, and you look better than him when he laughs. A person laughs well, it means a good person. " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

"The simplest understanding is always only at the end, when everything that is more tricky or stupid has been tried." F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

"Money is the only path that brings even nothingness to the fore." F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

“Money, of course, is a despotic power, but at the same time it is the highest equality, and this is their whole main strength. Money compares all inequalities. " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

“I don’t need money, or better, I don’t need money; not even power; I only need that which is acquired by power and which cannot be attained without power: this solitary and calm consciousness of power! This is the most complete definition of freedom, over which the world is beating so hard! " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

“The ideas are vulgar, rather, - they are understood unusually quickly, and certainly by the whole crowd, the whole street; moreover, they are considered the greatest and most brilliant, but only on the day of their appearance. Cheap is fragile. A quick understanding is only a sign of the vulgarity of the understood. " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

"It is true that in other cases, although you sincerely feel, but sometimes you introduce yourself." F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager" "Silence is always beautiful, and the silent one is always more beautiful than the speaker." F. M. Dostoevsky. "Teenager"

"Today was a sad, rainy day, without a glimpse, as if my future old age." F. M. Dostoevsky. "White Nights"

“Thus, when we are unhappy, we feel the unhappiness of others more strongly; the feeling is not broken, but concentrated …”F. M. Dostoevsky. "White Nights"

"O! how unbearable a happy person is at another moment! " F. M. Dostoevsky. "White Nights"

“To kill for murder is disproportionately greater punishment than the crime itself. Murder by sentence is disproportionately worse than murder by a robber. Anyone who is killed by robbers, slaughtered at night, in the forest, or somehow, certainly still hopes that he will be saved, until the very last moment. An example was that the throat was already cut, but he still hoped, or ran, or asked. And here all this last hope, with which it is ten times easier to die, is probably taken away: here is the verdict, and in the fact that you probably cannot escape, all the terrible torment is sitting, and there is no more torment in the world. Bring and place a soldier against the cannon itself in the battle and shoot at him, he will still hope, but read the sentence to this very soldier, and he will go crazy or cry. Who said that human nature can handle this without going crazy? Why such a curse, ugly, unnecessary, in vain? " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Moron"

“A child can be told everything - everything; I was always amazed at the thought how little fathers and mothers even know their children, one should not hide anything from children, under the pretext that they are small and that it is too early for them to know. What a sad and unhappy thought. And how well the children themselves notice that their fathers consider them too small and do not understand anything, while they understand everything. The big ones do not know that a child, even in the most difficult case, can give extremely important advice. " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Moron"

“In most cases people, even villains, are much more naive and simpler than we generally conclude about them. And we ourselves too. " F. M. Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

“He who is lying to himself and his own lie, hears it to the point that he does not discriminate between himself and around him, and therefore enters into disrespect for himself and for others. Without respecting anyone, he ceases to love, but in order to be occupied and entertained without love, he indulges in passions and gross sweets and reaches completely to bestiality in his vices, and everything from incessant lies to people and to himself. He who lies to himself before anyone else can be offended. After all, being offended is sometimes very pleasant, isn't it? And after all, a person knows that no one offended him, and that he made up an offense to himself and lied for beauty, he exaggerated to create a picture, by the way he became attached and made a mountain out of a pea - he himself knows this, but still, the very, the first, is offended, offended to the point of pleasantness, to the feeling of greater pleasure, and thus comes to the true enmity … FM Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

“In other natures, tenderly and subtly feeling, there is sometimes some kind of stubbornness, some kind of chaste pleasure to speak out and express, even to a dear creature, his tenderness, not only in public, but even in private; alone even more; only from time to time a mask breaks through them, and it breaks through, the hotter, the more impetuous, the further it was restrained! This happens sometimes with the kindest, but the most faint of heart people who, despite all their kindness, are carried away to self-pleasure with their grief and anger, seeking to express themselves, no matter what, even to the point of resentment to another, innocent and mostly always the person closest to themselves. … For example, women sometimes need to feel unhappy, offended, even if there were no offenses or misfortunes. There are many men who look like women in this case, and even men who are not weak, in whom there is not so much feminine at all. " F. M. Dostoevsky. "Humiliated and insulted"

"… she seemed much younger than her years, which is almost always the case with women, retaining an honest, pure warmth of her heart until old age." F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

"He is an intelligent man, but to act intelligently - one mind is not enough." F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

“And in general, Pyotr Petrovich belonged to the section of people, apparently, extremely amiable in society and especially pretending to be kind, but who, almost according to them, immediately measure all means and become more like sacks of flour than on the knights unleashed and revitalizing the society. " F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

"… and laugh until you drop because they showed your finger, and drink to the point of feeling insensible, not so much from debauchery, but in stripes, when they give you a childish drink." F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

“… put into motion the greatest and unshakable means to conquer a woman’s heart, a means that never and no one will deceive and which acts decisively on everyone, without any exception. This is a well-known remedy, flattery. There is nothing in the world more difficult than straightforwardness, and there is nothing easier than flattery. " F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"