Freedom

A quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

English translation: Constance Garnett

From the source

Notes from the Underground, Part I, Chapter VII.

English translation by Constance Garnett. Historical translation reproduced in the linked source.

The fictional underground narrator argues against a purely rational account of human behaviour.