Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Tú habrías podido empuñar la espada de César. ¿Por qué rechazaste este último don? Si hubieras seguido este tercer consejo del poderoso Espíritu, habrías dado a los hombres todo lo que buscan sobre la tierra: un dueño ante el que inclinarse, un guardián de su conciencia y el medio de unirse al fin cordialmente en un hormiguero común, pues la necesidad de unión universal es el tercero y último tormento de la raza humana. La humanidad ha tendido siempre a organizarse sobre una base universal.”
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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.