“Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Whether I am believed or not, I will repeat that Vladimir Soloviov, who held that Dostoevsky was a prophet, is wrong, and… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species,… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable peculiarity. Both were convinced… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Art, science, love, inspiration, ideals—choose out all the words with which humanity is wont, or has been in the past, to be consoled or… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had to give… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his disillusionment. Europe… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Aproape de fiecare data cand se refera la moarte, Socrate repeta, in opera lui Platon, cuvintele lui Euripide. Nimeni nu stie daca viata nu… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, as long as the world shall last, there will always be people who, either for the sake of peace or from an unquiet… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too far from… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov tells the truth neither out of love or respect for the truth, nor yet because, in the Kantian manner, a high duty… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Even Pushkin, who could understand everything, did not grasp the real significance of Dead Souls. He thought that the author was grieving for Russia,… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
