Quotes by Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

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Suffering "buys" something, and this something possesses a certain value for all of us, for common consciousness; by suf — Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the — Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important an — Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but — Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable pe — Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths