Anthony Hughes

“fools are made for wise men's profit.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“If you know too much, you'll get old too soon.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The most routine abstract thought,” he wrote, “very often struck him with an uncommon force and would stir him up remarkably. He was, in any case, a person in the highest degree excitable and impressionable. A simple idea, sometimes very familiar and commonplace, would suddenly set him aflame and reveal itself to him in all its significance. He, so to speak, felt thought with unusual liveliness. Then he would state it in various forms, sometimes giving it a very sharp, graphic expression, although not explaining it logically or developing its content” (3: 42). It is this inborn tendency of Dostoevsky to “feel thought” that gives his best work its special stamp, and why it is so important to locate his writings in relation to the evolution of ideas in his lifetime.”
― Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time

“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the latter becoming allegorical.”
― Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time