Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Ahora o nos horrorizamos o fingimos que nos horrorizamos mientras saboreamos el espectáculo como amantes de las emociones fuertes, extravagantes, que animan nuestro ocio cínico e indolente; o como niños pequeños espantamos con las manos a los fantasmas terribles y escondemos la cabeza en la almohada hasta que pase la terrible visión, para poco después olvidarla entre diversiones y juegos. Pero en algún momento también nosotros tendremos que empezar a vivir juiciosa y reflexivamente, también nosotros tendremos que dirigir la mirada hacia nosotros mismos como sociedad, también nosotros tendremos que comprender, aunque sea un poco, nuestra cosa pública o, al menos, establecer los inicios para su comprensión.”
Be the first to react on this!
Group of Brands
© 2026 Bibleportal.com All rights reserved.
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.