“En vista de que ni siquiera esto soy capaz de comprender, he decidido no intentar comprender a Dios. Confieso humildemente mi incapacidad para resolver estas cuestiones. En esencia, mi mentalidad es la de Euclides: una mentalidad terrestre. ¿Para qué intentar resolver cosas que no son de este mundo? Te aconsejo que no te tortures el cerebro tratando de resolver estas cuestiones, y menos aún el problema de la existencia de Dios. ¿Existe o no existe? Estos puntos están fuera del alcance de la inteligencia humana, que sólo tiene la noción de las tres dimensiones. Por eso yo admito sin razonar no sólo la existencia de Dios, sino también su sabiduría y su finalidad para nosotros incomprensible.”
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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.