Destruction Quote by Lev Shestov

“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

“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.”

— Lev Shestov

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.”

— Lev Shestov

“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

“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