“ Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? ”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864). copy citation
Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Source | Notes from Underground |
Topic | love |
Date | 1864 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/600/600-h/600-h.htm |
Context
“And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.”
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