Thread by @RelevantQuest

“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others...” #FyodorDostoevsky

“Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself.” #Dostoevsky

“A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn’t it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, & that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it...” #Dostoevsky

“...That he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word & made a mountain out of a pea—he knows all of that, & still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, & thus he reaches the point of real hostility.”

Authors You Should Meet: Fyodor Dostoevsky. This is from “The Brothers Karamazov,” a masterpiece that few have slogged through in this land of tweets & posts. Times change. Humanity does not. What was true of mankind in 1879 is true today. Answers are everywhere. READ. THE BOOKS.