Freedom

A quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

English translation: Constance Garnett

From the source

Notes from the Underground, Part I, Chapter IX.

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

The underground narrator challenges the idea that human desires can be reduced to calculation.