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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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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.

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Lev Shestov Necessity Philosophy Wisdom

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.

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Lev Shestov Judge Suffering

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

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They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad. This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.

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Lev Shestov Mad Madness Tolstoy