"There is something at the bottom of..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.
More by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”
“And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.”
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
More on Thought
More on Ideas
“I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”
“A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."”
“New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.”