"Reason is the slave of passion...." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.”

“One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.”

“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”

“No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.”

“I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.”

“What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

“It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.”

“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost”