Dostoevsky - Never Lie to Yourself
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2021
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In this video, I talk about Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, self-deception, knowledge, truth, and not lying to yourself.
If truth is the actual way to our destination, knowledge is the map that we have. And when the map gets us to our destination, we say that knowledge is true.
But knowledge is never truth, and to confuse the two is to confuse the map for the territory, the directions for the actual way, what was for what is, and to close oneself off to all learning. Mistaking knowledge for truth is the root of all self-deception. But a mind that separates these two things, that realizes that knowledge is never truth, that the map is never the territory, always remains open to change, to testing, to learning, to updating its map in accordance with the territory, and because of that, it will never deceive itself.
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How do I exempt my inner weirdness
It's the Epimenides paradox.
Priest says all who think they are correct are in fact wrong.
Priest thinks he is correct, therefore he is wrong.
So all who think they are correct, are in fact correct.
Priest thinks he's correct, therefore he's correct.
So all who think they are correct are in fact wrong.
Priest thinks he's correct therefore he is wrong... And on and on.
It a sort of circular reasoning fallacy. The fallacy being that the definition used in an argument cannot be an argument that concludes the definition is wrong.
That's also wisdom, just not in the way you think it is.
@@Teddypally like he said, there are barriers in the English language which don’t allow this unless a tedious amount of grammar is used to make it make sense
@@coldendorfman4751
If you believe it is the English language then suggest a language that doesn't have barriers. :)
Lying to yourself makes life easier in the short term but impossible in the long term
This was put beautifully.
Who says life has a long term?
@@Beyodd by long term, I don’t think he meant 300 years later 😂
@@Beyodd And that reveals what drives people to either lie to themselves or to be honest with themselves:
You only plan for the future, when you are convinced that you have a future. Regardless of wether or not you're right. When you're not convinced that you have (much of) a future, you don't plan for it either. If you're convinced you have no future, you're always going to chose solutions that work in the short term, regardless of the fact that you'll have to pay a heavy price for it later, in the future. You'll be convinced that you'll be long gone, before the bill comes, so to speak.
Bearable*
_"Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it."_
-André Gide
Isn't this all youtube videos about how they found the secret to success?
@@somewhereoverit711 it is any person who claims that by a certain plan, you can achieve the goal you have in mind by doing what they did
Except that isnt the way, it is just there own conceptualized idea that worked for them
Arianna Grande?
Wasn’t that guy a pederast? I’d doubt him for that reason.
Not a good quote...we have found the gold havent we? Imagine those who said there should be gold here as seeking the truth....and once they found the gold there they also found the truth. This quote doesnt hold. To vague....sounds like to me dude who wrote it just wanted to sound good and not be questioned.
Socrates said it best: "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky 💪🏻🚀
Yea I think that's in the video lmao, thanks
@@Enlightened0ne He's just commenting so his channel can get noticed. Added nothing of value to the video lmfao.
@@Enlightened0ne 😂😂
Dostojevski also said that he thought hell was the inability to love, it makes sense in this context.
Things have became so clear now. I was disappointed with how I was living my own life for a long time, and I now I see why. This was extraordinarily eye openin. I have a better perspective now. Thank you
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Too many people treat their opinions and thoughts as the truth
True.
Be honest with yourselves guys.
You have no idea how true this is. So much so that we had to create a name for them and they are called Karen's
While true, also note that sometimes knowledge is also true.
@@jojopoeticstyle1224 What? Knowledge is of the present as well. Hold a coin and let it fall to the ground - you now have knowledge of gravity. I fail to see what any claim of wisdom has to do with the present.
People constantly lie to themselves simply because they seem to have lost the ability to actually see themselves, their thoughts, their actions, instead they are too busy looking at others, judging others as it’s an easier thing to do. It takes lots of courage to be honest to oneself.
That’s my daily goal and current struggle. I feel if I can look at myself honestly, not just observing my greater ideas and actions resulting in successes, but also the really ignorant and embarrassing decisions that led to various troubles ect, I make a breakthrough in bringing my life into spiritual and psychological balance. Im convinced spiritually, the moment I can truthfully assess myself and stare into my own darkness without running away, it loses its power and my life will lighten from the inside out.
Sometimes the ones who have a truth they tell of themselves is a truth that is self destructive though so they must lie to themselves especially if they are on a path to recovery/self improvement. Saying things such as "ugly" "stupid" or something may be exactly how the person believes they are calling themselves beautiful and intelligent when they in fact aren't is a lie but it's good for the spirit and mind.
"Being upright and true to yourself" is among the qualities the Buddha praised a lot when you want any kind of personal progress
Be honest with yourselves guys.
Phew. All I gotta do is what chubby Buddha does, and I'll be free.
@@gen-x-zeke8446 I'd rather follow the lean Buddha, the chubby one was just a random monk from China
@@TheDhammaHub How many of them are there? Also, what's that smell?
@@gen-x-zeke8446 have some respect for Buddha
When I watched your video, I felt a great desire to learn English. Thank you very much..from an Arab follower
I think what Dostoevsky meant was that we know facts, see events, feel emotions, but we deny that they exist or don't matter. We can see details or errors but choose to ignore them thinking some things are ignorable when they may be not. This happens all the time when we take shortcuts or refuse to own up to mistakes. I don't think it is about mistaking knowledge for truth. I think it is about pretending to be ignorant of the truth to not be seen as culpable. Once a person knows something and it's associated consequences, one is immediately responsible for the consequences, particularly if there is no one else looking. By pretending, for example, you are not aware of your own emotions and faults, you can claim ignorance, be absolved, and even blame others for your own emotions and faults. That's an observable and common human behavior, just like people trying to pretend they know or don't know or people claiming the truth. While I can agree that knowledge is a human perception and truth exists irrespective to human perception or understanding, I don't think that is the takeaway from Dostoevsky. Because to even be cognizant that we lie requires us to know the truth, otherwise we could not even perceive of the self-deception. And, non-cognizance is not the same as self-deception. Self-deception requires knowing the truth. How can one otherwise know one is deceiving one's self on purpose or accidentally?
Could not agree more. Very well said.
I agree, there seems to be some personal ideology being projected into dostoevsky's work.
I totally agree.
And maybe saying that the truth is unknowable is also untrue, it's maybe more precise to say that I don't know whether the truth is knowable or not.
@@viniciusgarcia3452 Exactly! Who am I to say anything about the truth? I don't know everything. All I can do is try to know everything. Even then, I just have to make gross generalizations instead of reading a library full of books. And, I would have to work hard to discover every single scientific mystery all at the same time. I don't think it is anyone's job to be all knowing and all present. Certainly not mine!
I remember life when I lied to myself. I consciously didn’t know I was living a lie. Subconsciously my truths would slip out at times but they were coincidental at best so I thought.
Now that I don’t lie to myself and accept my place in life and accept that sometimes I struggle with it I tend to experience a more fulfilling existence. I hope that makes sense. I’m basically disagreeing with what you said. It seems like you need to organize your thoughts more clearly. You seem confused
Be well 💫🌟
This is one of the advice that my dad always tells me, never lie to yourself. As it seems like the problem that I face is solved, but actually it was just saved for another day to blow up
Lie to oneself is a daily practice we endure it when we are obliged to suppress our feelings to fit in . We keep our true emotions away to the point we end up not knowing what we want and how we are at this point. Dostoevsky wants us to reveal our feelings and thoughts no matter how difficult the situation is. To cease love is a result of not recognizing our real feelings and ending up with losing our self-respect. The beauty of Literature is in its openness to all kinds of interpretation and my understanding and yours of the quote are part of a whole picture.
Nice video 👍 “A map is not the territory it represents" - Alfred Korzybski, father of general semantics.
Map shows river, forest but it does not contain any water or tree as the Territory. Our perceived knowledge ("map") of the reality ("territory") is an abstraction of the reality, not the reality itself.
The problem is we forget that we made our map.
Knowledge both liberating but also a trap.
Yeah. If you like this guy's comment, and want to actually learn how to _do_ General-Semantics, my channel has a 20-minute primer on it. Cheers.
River water example is so good
@@RandommVideoShots Thank you 🙏
There was a time where I was young and in my first relationship. That quote at the beginning of the video about losing respect for not only yourself but everyone else while also losing the ability to love hits home like crazy. And I bet I wouldn't have understood the quote, especially the part about losing respect for others, if I hadn't experienced it so vividly myself
I can listen to this all day 🧠💗
The example on how believing you know the truth prevents you from seeing it was... what I needed
This is especially relevant in our current age of relativism!
(Relevatism: the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute.)
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A very clear and amazing understanding
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Very wise conversation
I finished The Brothers Karamazov a few months ago, and it instantly became one of my favorite books ever. And I don’t have many favorites haha. It felt enlightening and therapeutic
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I found this quite interesting. I've never thought about how the knowledge that we have isn't particularly true. Like my plans and aspirations in life or different methods of how to live my life are not truth. They're all simply maps that could help guide me to the truth. I think about how there's a lot of different flavors of philosophy or religion. At times they can claim to be the truth but the reality is that they are maps to it. You have to follow that map to see if it's correct or not. I've tried to use many different productivity systems and they show to be the truth but they're really just a map. Some systems I have found to be valuable in bringing me to where I want to go and others actually aren't the map that was able to guide me to truth.
Just my thoughts on the matter and beautifully made video.
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Discovered this channel a few months ago. Helped me overcome a heartbreaking treason. Easy to follow, even for non native English speakers. I’d love to hear / read about your analysis of the second part of the citation :
‘ and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.’
I understood that when you lie to yourself, you can’t see the truth anymore but I can’t see the link with loss of respect and loss for love.
Thank you !
Anna... Simply read the book Brothers Karamazov and you will find your answer there. The book is amazing, very powerful, and rich from a psychological perspective. It's one of the best novels ever written by a human being.
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Thank you for explaining this. I've known this information for a while but never had it formulated in this way, thank you for that.
Wonderful video and nice perspective about knowledge, truth and true.
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'Crime and punishment' one of the greatest pieces of literature ever written. If you have the time read it
interesting i came to this realization over time by myself through experience and intuition however it's nice to see i'm not the only one
Love this❣️
In my opinion, this was more profound than Fyodor Dostoyevsky's quote. It shows how to apply the quote to everyday life. Thanks for sharing.
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Explained it beautifully
Thankyou
Interesting. Very interesting.
this one's mind-blowing. the knowledge and truth shouldn't use interchangeably. what we know is not always the truth, we should test it and prove it to ourselves. so we must be open to change and feed our minds for true knowledge.
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- The truth changes overtime
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nicely done
I like this teaching methodology using these dialogues.
rhank u bro :) love Dostoevsky :)
damn! you broke it down so well!
This video has reincarnated my whole perspective to understand that you were not wrong, it was the knowledge of yours at that time which did served the truth. Pen down a new map and pursue the destination again, and if failed again, don’t think you failed, it was just your knowledge that did serve the truth.
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I feel like this is true. We have our ego and we have our other self, seeing its reflection and offering the possibility of introspection ; It is a part of us that’s coming to life, and as other truth and knowledge, it has some to teach us all. We must embrace this deceptive aspects of our being to be able to move and grow better.
I was lost because my to myself lies drowned me, till my truths saved me. And now I have no hatred but only love and yearnings.
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And so trust wisdom.. Because wisdom will always give you a reference to test your knowledge against it.
This is so profound to me.
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"I think, therefore I am"
Love thisss
Everything other than the 1+1=2 example was very illuminating and wise.
I realy enjoy your vidoes btw im in a place were i can realllly use these kinds of videos to spark my new maps thank you for making these beautiful videos
This is one of the most profound things iv ever learnt.
A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. - Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity (1933, p. 58)
This is so powerful