Ha! ha! ha! But after all, if you like, in reality there is not such thing as choice, you will interrupt with a laugh. Science has even now succeeded in analysing man to such an extent that we know al...
I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety and refinement.
I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the darin...
I love humanity,’ he said, ‘but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
I left proud, but with my spirit crushed.
I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.' Excuse me, gentleman, but I am no...
I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
I don't know how it is with others, and my feeling is that I cannot be like any other. Any other thinks, and then at once thinks something else. I cannot think something else, I think one thing all my...
God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?
Dieses reizende Wesen, diese Sanfte, dieser Himmel voller Seligkeit - war mein Tyrann, der unerträgliche Marterer meiner Seele!
But maybe there isn't any God.
But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic.
But do you know what: I am convinced that we underground folk ought to be kept on a curb. Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and brea...
Az mı buluyorusunuz intiharları?- Hem de çok az.- İnsanları kendilerini öldürmekten alıkoyan ne sizce?- Henüz... tam bilmiyorum... iki boş inanç alıkoyuyor sanki, iki şey; yalnızca iki şey; bunlardan...
Look how our young people commit suicide, without asking themselves Hamlet’s question what there is beyond, without a sign of such a question, as though all that relates to the soul and to what awaits...
Each man cannot judge except by himself, he said, blushing. There will be entire freedom when it makes no difference whether one lives or does not live. That is the goal to everything.The goal? But th...
Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop in these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden enjoyment, and frightful recalcitration.