“If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.”
Quotes by Lev Shestov
“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”
“Suffering "buys" something, and this something possesses a certain value for all of us, for common consciousness; by suffering we buy the right to judge.”
Lev Shestov
Lev Shestov was a prominent Russian existentialist and religious philosopher known for his profound critiques of philosophical rationalism and positivism. Born Yeguda Lev Shvartsman, he argued that re...