I'll tell you why I draw the conclusion," explained the prince, evidently desirous of clearing up the matter a little. "Because, though I often think over the men of those times, I cannot for the life of me imagine them to be like ourselves. It really appears to me that they were of another race altogether than ourselves of today. At that time people seemed to stick so to one idea; now, they are more nervous, more sensitive, more enlightened--people of two or three ideas at once--as it were. The man of today is a broader man, so to speak--and I declare I believe that is what prevents him from being so self-contained and independent a being as his brother of those earlier days. Of course my remark was only made under this impression, and not in the least

F.M.Dostoevsky "Idiot"

 

When I read it, I were thinking: indeed, we are living by thousands of ideas - from the best way to wash your clothes to mixes of science and dozen of religions. And those ideas, mostly conflicting between each other, divide us from the inside, make us vulnerable for new idea's income, without completing of any of them. We call it "latitude of thought" but in reality it make's us no one, because we don't know what we want to do, don't know why we are willing to do something, what the reason of our life is. Always fighting, but never winning, always searching, but never finding.