“But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.” Stranger

“Neither the uneducated and uninformed of the truth, nor yet those who never make an end of their education, will be able ministers of State; not the former, because they have no single aim of duty which is the rule of all their actions, private as well as public; nor the latter, because they will not act at all except upon compulsion, fancying that they are already dwelling apart in the islands of the blest.” Republic

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude. Essays

Variant translation: If I had to define man it would be: a biped, ungrateful. Notes from Underground