"Perhaps I really regard myself as an..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.”

“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”

“The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!”

“I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.”

“Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself-" "And, adding it all up...?" "The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.”

“A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".”

“Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.”

“If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.”

“The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.”