Quotes by Lev Shestov

"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."

"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."