Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Se dice que la humanidad, acortando las distancias y transmitiéndose los pensamientos por el espacio, se unirá cada vez más estrechamente, y que reinará la fraternidad. Pero no creáis en esta unión de los hombres. Al considerar la libertad como el aumento de las necesidades y su pronta saturación, se altera su sentido, pues la consecuencia de ello es un aluvión de deseos insensatos, de costumbres e ilusiones absurdas. Esos hombres sólo viven para envidiarse mutuamente, para la sensualidad y la ostentación. Ofrecer banquetes, viajar, poseer objetos valiosos, grados, sirvientes, se considera como una necesidad a la que se sacrifica el honor, el amor al prójimo e incluso la vida, pues, al no poder satisfacerla, habrá quien llegue al suicidio.”
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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.