
Notes From the Underground

for what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Notes From the Underground
reason is nothing but reason
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Notes From the Underground
But I repeat for the hundredth time, there is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself, what is stupid, very stupid--simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible.