Russian Philosopher Dostoevsky Quotes

All my tendencies are deadly ones, he once said to me, everything in me has a deadly tendency to it, it's in my genes, as Wertheimer said, I thought. He always read books that were obsessed with suicide, with disease and death, I thought while standing in the inn, books that described human misery, the hopeless, meaningless, senseless world in which everything is always devastating and deadly. That's why he especially loved Dostoevsky and all his disciples, Russian literature in general, because it actually is a deadly literature, but also the depressing French philosophers.

To talk nonsense in one’s own way is almost better than to talk a truth that’s someone else’s

the Russians did not have philosophers, but they did have Dostoevski and Tolstoy; and the substitute was perhaps not a total loss.