“Entre las colinas, cuando estás sentado en la sombra fresca de los álamos blancos, intercambiando la paz y serenidad de campos y prados distantes — entonces que tu corazón diga en silencio, «Dios se descansa con la razón». Y cuando la tormenta viene, y el viento poderoso sacude el bosque, y trueno y relámpagos proclaman la majestad del cielo — entonces que tu corazón diga en sobrecogimiento, «Dios se mueve con la pasión». Y porque eres un aliento en la esfera de Dios, y un hoja en el bosque de Dios, tú también debes descansarte con la razón y moverte con la pasión.”
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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.