Lev Shestov

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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

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Рассказывают, что какой-то математик, прослушавши музыкальную симфонию, спросил: «что она доказывает?» Разумеется, ничего не доказывает, кроме того, что у математика не было вкуса к музыке

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Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality

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Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all