One of my favorite books ever. Raskolnikov kills two women to prove that he is one of the "supermen" Nietzche talks about as being able to rise above the moral structure of God, which, according to Nietzsche, is now dead. "Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"
The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not
be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds,
loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
there always seemed to be a close
connection between his patients' dreams and their mental abnormalities
constant connection between some
part of every dream and some detail of the dreamer's life during the
previous waking state
We advance a step farther in our generalisation when we express the
tenet thus: If, relative to K, K1 is a uniformly moving co-ordinate
system devoid of rotation, then natural phenomena run their course
with respect to K1 according to exactly the same general laws as with
respect to K. This statement is called
Basically I get out of this the fact that Einstein is a genius and can quite literally think outside of the box. In fact he can think at the box from any angle in multiple dimensions and then describe it. Although I am sure I am not getting this 100%, I do see that the light is working on his end.