1 Here we have bookish dreams, a heart unhinged by theories.
2 He forgot to shut the door after him, and murdered two people for a theory.
3 If you'd invented another theory you might perhaps have done something a thousand times more hideous.
4 Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 5 Why, carry out logically the theory you were advocating just now, and it follows that people may be killed.
6 If that's how you feel, go and inform the police that you had this mischance: you made a little mistake in your theory.
7 This fell in with the most recent fashionable theory of temporary insanity, so often applied in our days in criminal cases.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 8 He had tried expounding to him the system of Fourier and the Darwinian theory, but of late Pyotr Petrovitch began to listen too sarcastically and even to be rude.
9 He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but was incapable of boldly overstepping the law, and so he is not a man of genius.
10 Deep down, hidden far away out of sight all that seemed to him now--all his old past, his old thoughts, his old problems and theories, his old impressions and that picture and himself and all, all.
11 It struck him as strange and grotesque, that he should have stopped at the same spot as before, as though he actually imagined he could think the same thoughts, be interested in the same theories and pictures that had interested him.
12 A special little theory came in too--a theory of a sort--dividing mankind, you see, into material and superior persons, that is persons to whom the law does not apply owing to their superiority, who make laws for the rest of mankind, the material, that is.
13 And now mother and she have taken it into their heads that she can put up with Mr. Luzhin, who propounds the theory of the superiority of wives raised from destitution and owing everything to their husband's bounty--who propounds it, too, almost at the first interview.