“I like it when people lie! Lying is man's only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie - you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and that's honourable in its way; well, but we can't even lie with our own minds! Lie to me, but in your own way, and I'll kiss you for it.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' delves into the psychological and philosophical complexities of a man's act of murder and the subsequent struggle with his own conscience. The novel is renowned for its exploration of the Russian soul and the nature of free will versus determinism. more
“Propaganda is a man’s strategy to hold himself out as the righteous person he is not.”
“Don’t think that there’s a legitimate answer to a false question.”