8 Quotes About Notes From The Underground

When you're in a place where no one can hear you, you have the opportunity to think about things in a different way. That's what it is like when you're in the underground. In the underground, everyone is alone and they don't have anyone to talk to. In underground, people have to think for themselves and be creative Read more

They have to come up with their own ideas. This series of quotes from notes from the underground shows what life is like in the underground and how people react when they are in a place where no one can hear them.

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I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem. R.F. Georgy
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Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem. R.F. Georgy
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We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read. R.F. Georgy
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The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments. Fyodor Dostoyevsky