Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.”

— Martin Luther

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…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every desire has a relation to madness.

— Luce Irigaray

“To be free, above all, was to be free from enslavement to one’s own basest desires, which could never be fulfilled, and the pursuit…

— Patrick J. Deneen

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that…

— D. H. Lawrence

“How selfish soever man may be supposed,” Smith wrote, “there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of…

— Steven D. Levitt

“Thus, in imagination, individuals seem freer under the dominance of the bourgeoisie than before, because their conditions of life seem accidental; in reality, of…

— Karl Marx

“For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me…

— Emil Cioran

“While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets…

— Edmund Wilson

“Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the…

— Karen Russell

“Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.”

— Terry Pratchett