Dostoevsky - Never Lie to Yourself
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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. :)
_"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.
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*
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.
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.
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
wait i have seen your videos,you gonna start uploading again?
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.
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 💫🌟
"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
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
@@AdityaEnergySolutions Thank you 🙏
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.
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.)
Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm glad I found your channel!
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
The example on how believing you know the truth prevents you from seeing it was... what I needed
I can listen to this all day 🧠💗
I disagree with this interpretation. Lying to yourself means acting disingenuously or inauthentically, acting in a way that isn’t in accordance with your values. When one acts contrary to what they believe and hold dear in their hearts, they will become out of touch with themselves since their hypocrisy blinds their self-knowledge. Since they can’t even trust themselves to act honestly, how can they trust others? Since they have a general distrust of humanity/seeing only the bad in people, they will cease to love.
From a very long time I was feeling that I was not being whom I am. After seeing this video this became a little more clear. I think I'm a victim of spiritual narcissism.
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
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.
I sent this to my friends . This was so good. I didnt understand at the beginning but once you explained I actually understood. I needed to see something like this . Makes my challenges a bit clear to tackle now .
Thank you!
Thank you so much! It was the perfect timing for me :)
Same here
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.
- The truth changes overtime
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.
WOW, I can't stop watching this video....Fully of advises!!! Priceless
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.
Everything other than the 1+1=2 example was very illuminating and wise.
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.
Thank you!
Being present in the moment divulges ths truth . Not the past or the future but the present examination of consciousness. The present however inspires belief in a truth and the knowledge acquired becomes a reference of a former truth that may or may not still exist. Hold on to your positivity and pride.
Thank you.
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.
'Crime and punishment' one of the greatest pieces of literature ever written. If you have the time read it
Such an enjoyable, valuable video and the comment section!
The answer depends on what you're looking for, i like that
And so trust wisdom.. Because wisdom will always give you a reference to test your knowledge against it.
And I remember a quote from Richard P. Feynman:
“The first principle is not to fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Thank You
This was awesome and there are a lot of inspiring comments. That makes me feel hopeful for humanity to a certain degree
rhank u bro :) love Dostoevsky :)
I watch your videos and like them a lot. It's a extraordinary school of thoughts. FROM IRAN THANK YOU A LOT
I just love your videos,so deep and thoughtful.....keep going man love your work ❤️
Thank youuu!
A very clear and amazing understanding
Just because the test of our knowledge gets us to truth does not ALWAYS, and maybe even most of the time, mean we found truth. How many times have we seen strong anecdotal evidence blind people from the truth.
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please keep doing this, really love your content
I'm kinda glad I saw this video... Glad your still making video...✌️
The man who ceases to seek the truth but still loves the knowledge has reached an unheard point of freedom in thought.
So what is the truth then?
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)
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.
Keep up the great work man your videos help me clear my head and mental spirals never give up and keep on grinding
As a Domino's delivery driver in an area that often has constructions blocking the ways, this has been very helpful.
This chanel is beyond great ness 👑
Thanks!
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
I might binge watch Freedom in Thought
The TRUTH is what's actual, but varies depending on the context.
KNOWLEDGE is your current understanding of traversing the path of TRUTH.
What's TRUE is a snapshot of TRUTH, it's the current path to what's actual.
"Truth is a mirror broken into a thousand pieces and each of us has one". I don't know whose is this quote, but I think it's great, for the truth is something ungraspable. You can have a glimpse of it, but overall, every one makes their own truth, as a map to walk through life. I am not saying truth is relative, just that it's a polyhedron with many faces so no one can grasp them all. That said, if we lower it down, lying to oneself regarding one's life and how it is lived, it's something the majority of people do, many times because they just want to follow the social norm-what's commonly accepted. Truth is scary and many people don't dare to face it so they live with the belief that what they think they know -not even what they actually know- is the truth.
Damn this channel is gold
Thankyou for the Video and information, these are so valuable content and I'm grateful for this.
I like this teaching methodology using these dialogues.
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.
thank you.. i just have pain .. and want to heal ..
"I think, therefore I am"
Having knowledge of something is better but to prove the knowledge you must have to experience the truth.
Please someone correct me if I am wrong.
I combined the dialogues and Dostoyevsky's lines as I should not even think as thinking is more like speaking to oneself and truth cannot be spoken. And one should not lie to himself. So,just see the world how it is. Don't think about it. You would be liying to yourself. That would help me also from the habit of overthinking.👍
Very wise conversation
I found this directly related to the video of never follow someone else's map
This is so beautiful for my children to watch
Lies seem to be the human brain's method of coping. A lot of the times, truth is painful and hard to confront so the brain finds ways to delude us by distorting reality.
It's easy but unfortunately, not a good long-term solution...
Then the law of attraction and Believing in yourself is all a lie right. If we think like this we will never be able to believe in ourselves or i don't am i trying to be toxic positive or just afraid of being pessimistic or just thinking about extremes
@@ajithv5540 believing in yourself isn’t the same as lying to yourself, you don’t just believe in yourself because you were told to, it’s through your relationship with your self and what you have experienced and your results from trying to accomplish even the littlest things, when you believe in yourself, improve your life and get results, this is where the truth lies, and where confidence comes from
@@S4or jordan peterson vibes
I make promises to myself to attain my strength and willpower.
Just love it! Much needed for me now! Please keep doing videos.. I really need ur videos!
Terrific video! Thank you for posting.
Wonderful video and nice perspective about knowledge, truth and true.
I always tried to be very honest. Still ended up where I really dont know the truth from the lie either within or without, because life and humans are simply far too complex and contradictory to ever really be sure. It's all just a mess, tbh.
Yeah man. I completely get you. We will never be perfect bro. I get anxious and upset with who I am aswell. I'm just trying to always remember to come back to videos like these that give me a new perspective when I'm a little lost.
I think sometimes you have to lie to yourself because the truth is hard to bear..
Interesting. Very interesting.
So true, ,
This vídeo reminded me about David Hume's Problem of Induction
"Truth is never spoken"... you have said heavy words my man... amazing explanation... enlightening !
Truth CAN be spoken but experienced is another thing.
@@angrydragon4574 yes, if something has worked time after time and always gets you to a certain destination, then it can be spoken of as truth!
Like “once born one must die”… truth
“Love prevails over fear & hate”… truth or else humanity won’t exist…
@@naughtynoodle3271 What does fear have to do with this? You're speaking strangely.
@@angrydragon4574 I am just telling you examples of universal truths!
Personal truths can’t be spoken of, if it only worked for you and got you to your destination! It’s only your truth and not universal! That is what I think the video meant.
@@naughtynoodle3271 Well, technically, your truth could be considered as a part of the universal truth since all of us exist in the universe...
And by achieving the above, you start obtaining something called wisdom, which comes from years of life experiences, whether good ones or bad ones.
Knowledge is a tool.
Thankyou
damn! you broke it down so well!
Truth is not something that can't be unless you experience
The map can be wrong sometimes, but it can still be a good guide, and if you need to reassess where you're going, because the map was incorrect, that just means it's time to learn what the territory is actually like.
I think that Dostoevsky, was not talking about truth vs. knowledge in this sentence but, he was talking about truth and desire/want/will.
what I mean is that a person can say to everyone, even him/herself that they want something but the truth is that they want something different. this discrepancy between what we want and what we say we want is rooted in our experiences and knowledge of the world we live in, in our trauma, in our memories of the past that tells us what should we desire instead of what we trully feel we want.
for example:
I feel I want to have a beautiful brunette girlfriend that is as beautiful inside and outside. but the truth is that what I get depends on multiple factors that only a few are under my control while others are completely out of my control.
for example: I may meet this brunette girl, that is exactly how I like her to be. but this does not mean that I am the one she likes and chooses to be her boyfriend. she may even dislike me or not accept me even as a friend. on the other hand, I may be attracting a black African girl who is in love with me, and I enjoy her company and we think alike, but I do not find her as physically as attractive. I also, at the same time find an Asian girl who is physically as I like women, but we do not think alike at all, and we have opposed world views and there is no liking between us. Also, another possibility is that I meet a girl that is physically what I want, and she may like me, but she is a horrible person who I won't be able to like that much either.
On the other hand, the same can be said all about me. I may not be good enough or be as they want their partner to be.
considering this, what I want can never always be truth.
but If I do not have clear that I "like brunette women" and think that "I like the African girl" just because she likes me back and we enjoy each other's company, then I may end up not truly loving the African, but pretending to lover her, which is a deception for myself and the girl who I may even end up cheating on later in life when the relationship is in a different stage.
"as a consequence: "loses all respect for himself and for others ... and having no respect ceases to love".
If I on the other hand, understand that I may not get to love her all the way she loves me, and I am honest about it with myself and her. but "decide" to love her regardless and have a relationship. I may end up being happy and authentic even if she is not all that I ever wanted. another outcome is that I am also honest with me and her and reject her. she initially will suffer as I suffer for not getting what I want but both are being honest and true to what we desire. so, we eventually will be fine, and life will go on.
Now this phenomenon is not kind of "wrong", a sin, or "the worst thing ever", etc. this is Just part of what being a human being is. is part of our reality. this world´s resources are limited, the amount of people you can meet is limited, the amount of time in a day is limited, the number of relationships that you will have in your life ... is limited. we can only choose regarding what´s been given to us to choose from.
as reality is limited, we can only afford to choose what we can, but many people live their lives waiting for the day they get to have what they truly want or ends up in addictions to cope with a reality that is not what they wanted. but all of this is a very human experience, the result of being conscious of all the possibilities that exists in our reality, no matter how far, how almost impossible that possibility is, we resist to lose the hope of getting what we truly want. that hope make us to suffer if we do not realize:
1.- what is what we want.
2.- is it reachable what we want.
3.- If I cannot get what I want, then, can I still be happy with what I have?
4.- I cannot expect a perfect reality and suffer because of things that I cannot control.
5.- whatever I was thought from my family I could achieve in life was probably wrong/a lie, and I should live not based on what others expect from me to achieve but from what makes me happy sometimes and is good enough for me (because nobody can always be happy and that is right).
6.- whenever we think we can get something and we do not, we suffer. so, we should always keep in check our expectations from reality and deal with it so that whatever the result is, we are fine with ourselves and others.
7.- not getting what we want is a natural part of life. when in our life, we get what we want, it is because many factors were met for that to happen, some were met due to your active decisions and work and others are not in your control (luck/God was on our side).
I think I needed this. Thank you.
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Great video!
Absolutely superb! I'm so happy to see something this high quality from someone this early in their career. The world is yours, my friend. I think so, anyway. 🎁
Thank you so much for this video. The information is too valuable. How nice to see how others try to help the word with these important matters
Thanks for this. I got what I needed.
Acc to me it says..Knowledge is that we KNOW when we are lying in front of others but eventually it becomes a habit or a part of the routine which leads to our mind perceiving it as something true or a path that will lead us out of the situation we are stuck in. Eventually we keep on lying, feeling we know that it's a lie or feeling that only we are aware of that subtle difference from the real incident but at the end we realise it makes a domino effect and the roots which were nothing but lie kept on growing in a full tree & guess what now WE can't distinguish the lie with the truth getting stuck in loop hole.
Great vid! 💖