Fyodor Dostoyevsky quote about reason from Notes from Underground - You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses.
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“ You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. ”
 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864). copy citation

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Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Source Notes from Underground
Topic reason will impulse
Date 1864
Language English
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky quote about reason from Notes from Underground - You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky quote about reason from Notes from Underground - You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses.