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Quotation from Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“One’s own free unfettered choice, one’s own caprice, however wild it may be, one’s own fancy worked up at times to frenzy—is that very “most advantageous advantage” which we have overlooked”
Notes from Underground, Part I, Chapter VII, trans. Constance Garnett (1918)
The narrator names the advantage that theories of rational self-interest leave out: the freedom to choose for oneself, even foolishly.
Citation: "One’s own free unfettered choice, one’s own caprice, however wild it may be, one’s own fancy worked up at times to frenzy—is that very “most advantageous advantage” which we have overlooked" — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part I, Chapter VII, trans. Constance Garnett (1918). (id notes-from-underground-q3)
Portrait: Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, Vasily Perov, Public domain.
