Notes from Underground
Where does the human contradiction of trying to prove one's freedom even by going against reason come from?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I first faced the dark monologue of this book, I felt a chill, as if my own secret shame had been laid bare by that twisted, contradictory voice. The author keenly grasps that the human being is a creature who, even before the plain reason that two plus two is four, can choose ruin simply to prove he is not a cog in a machine. It is a shocking psychological portrait that explores the darkness and solitude of the human depths, never to be explained by rationality alone, and the raw will to freedom.
"Man, everywhere and at all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least as his reason and advantage dictated."Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"인간은 언제나, 어디서나, 그가 누구이든 간에, 이성과 이익이 지시하는 대로가 아니라 자신이 원하는 대로 행동하기를 좋아했다."
🌱Apply It Today
Sometimes, allow yourself a slightly irrational choice that your heart is drawn to, over the perfectly reasonable option. Within it you may discover your true, hidden desire.
