Quotes by : Lev Shestov

They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is....

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to....

St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite....

Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path....

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation....

Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men....

Suffering "buys" something, and this something possesses a certain value for all of us, for common consciousness;....

But it will be asked: What is the force and power of the blessings and curses of men, even if these men....