Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Consciousness
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I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.
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Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.
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And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.
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But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.
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The consciousness of life is higher than life.
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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
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What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
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Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness
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Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
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