Your Three Most Influential Books

[Mudhammam]

My favorite quote from C&P:

“To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

It gives me more patience with theists and people generally. Sing your song until your song changes. Imitation may be flattering for the one being imitated but it is demeaning for the one abandoning his own voice.

I'm flipping through my copy right now to see what I underlined... found that quote. I marked the next sentence too as it is a nice touch:

"In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird."

Besides that one it looks like I only made three other underlines in the book...

"The question whether the disease gives rise to the crime, or whether the crime from its own peculiar nature is always accompanied by something of the nature of disease, he did not yet feel able to decide."

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."

"Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery."