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title: "3 Meaning-making Quotes by 1 author"
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> [“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-shestov/after-a-tragedy-a-farce-philosophy-enters-into-her-power-and-the/)

[Lev Shestov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-shestov/)

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> [“But nobody has ever yet called a philosopher "a hired conscience," though everybody gives the lawyer this nickname. Why this partiality?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-shestov/but-nobody-has-ever-yet-called-a-philosopher-a-hired-conscience/)

[Lev Shestov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-shestov/)

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> [“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-shestov/the-business-of-philosophy-is-to-teach-man-to-live-in-uncertainty-not/)

[Lev Shestov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-shestov/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9c/lev-shestov-12374_business_the-business-of-philosophy-is-to-teach-m_1874365.jpg)

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