Lica

“I don't like it when people with only a general education rush in to solve problems best left to specialists; and that happens all the time among us.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevski

“So what, so what, who cares what happens next,' flashed through his head, one single minute of this, and the world can go to hell”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it. And who knows (there is no saying with certainty), perhaps the only goal on earth to which mankind is striving lies in this incessant process of attaining, in other words, in life itself, and not in the thing to be attained, which must always be expressed as a formula, as positive as twice two makes four, and such positiveness is not life, gentlemen, but is the beginning of death.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“Do you know, do you know that mankind can sill continue to live without the Englishman, can continue without Germany, can continue all too well without the Russian, can continue without science, can continue without bread - it is only without beauty that we cannot continue, for there will be nothing at all to do in the world! That's where the whole secret lies, that's where the whole of history lies! Science itself would not last a minute without beauty - do you know about that, you who are laughing now? - it would turn into loutishness, you wouldn't even be able to invent the nail... I won't yield!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons