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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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: https://geni.us/Yktpy

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