There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Dostoevsky isn't celebrating novelty for its own sake—he's asserting that exhaustion is a choice, not a fact. The danger lies in assuming we've inherited settled questions, which lets us stop looking altogether. Consider how Victorian writers thought they'd mapped all of human nature until Freud arrived, or how physicians believed they understood the heart until echocardiography revealed its actual architecture. The Russian novelist whispers to us that intellectual laziness masquerades as completion.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to...”
Marcus Aurelius“Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.”
Benjamin Franklin“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin