To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Show more
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s. — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Show more
‘Evildoing should not only be permitted but even should be acknowledged as the most necessary and most intelligent solution for the situation of every godless person’! Is that it, or not?”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Self-Reliance
A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense.
— Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
— Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dylano | Essayful • Tweet
“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”
Robert Greene • The 48 Laws Of Power (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene Book 1)
It is only in the living of the wrong that you can truly understand the right. Once you have realized the right, you will then be moved to help others on their journey out of the darkness and into the light.
Tina Louise Spalding • Making Love to God: The Path to Divine Sex
With the good men, you can see the learning juices churning around every mistake. You learn from mistakes. When I look back, my life seems to be an endless chain of mistakes.”