Consciousness Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.”

— Dostoyevsky

“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Charles Stross

“Life, consciousness, self-awareness, he decided in that moment, amounted to a remarkable gift bestowed upon those fortunate enough to have been born. It had…

— G.F. Gustav

“He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable , and…

— Oscar Wilde

“man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.”

— Voltaire

“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”

— Irvine Welsh

“some were simple idlers spending an inheritance pretending to be poets or painters; and a couple were medical students, who had a wildness of…

— Iain Pears

“That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man, must in…

— Victor Hugo

“All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour. One”

— C.S. Lewis