Fyodor Dostoevsky — Quote from Crime and Punishment
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
Crime and Punishment (1866)
Concepts: authenticity, freedom, rebellion
Resonant Quotes
- “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free tha...” — Albert Camus, The Rebel Both passages champion authentic self-determination over conformity, with Camus's absolute freedom echoing Dostoevsky...
- “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Both champion authentic selfhood over conformity to external expectations—Woolf's embrace of one's natural being dire...
- “What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunc...” — Albert Camus, The Rebel Dostoevsky's preference for authentic error over imposed correctness perfectly captures Camus's rebel who affirms ind...
- “The purpose of psychotherapy is not to make people adjusted but to set them f...” — Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself Both champion authentic selfhood over social conformity—May's therapeutic freedom and Dostoevsky's individual error b...
- “Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, w...” — Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself Both assert the fundamental importance of individual authenticity over social approval—May's defiant stance and Dosto...
- “We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are — that...” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness Both quotes champion radical individual responsibility and authentic choice-making, with Sartre's existential burden ...
- “The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the ver...” — Erich Fromm, Man for Himself Dostoevsky's preference for authentic error over borrowed correctness exemplifies Fromm's principle that embracing un...
- “I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself m...” — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Both authors champion the moral superiority of authentic failure over inauthentic success, privileging individual int...