Thursday 10 October 2019

More Notes from Notes from the Underground

by Simon Smith

And another interesting thought…

[A]ll “direct” persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity, and their minds are at ease and you know that is the chief thing.

Dostoevsky, Feodor. (1996). Notes from the Underground. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 9, 2019, from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/600/600-h/600-h.htm

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