"Whether one showed you and execution or..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.
More by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.”
“Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.”
“I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.”
More on Perspective
“As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.”
“The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell”
“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.”