Notes From The Underground Quotes

Notes From The Underground Quote of the day

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

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

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.

We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.