Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881
Birthday: November 11
Death: February 9
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.
topic: Men, Errors, Perhaps Love
