By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.


The Karamazov Brothers (ed. OUP Oxford, 2008) - ISBN: 9780191647802

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a...

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a...

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a...

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a...