Lev Shestov (Author of All Things are Possible)

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Lev Shestov

Born

in Kiev, Ukraine

January 31, 1866

Died

November 19, 1938

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Lev Isaakovich Shestov (Russian: 袥械胁袠褋邪邪虂泻芯胁懈褔楔械褋褌芯虂胁), born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann (Russian: 袠械谐褍写邪袥械泄斜楔胁邪褉褑屑邪薪), variously known as Leon Shestov, L茅on Chestov, Leo Shestov.

A Ukrainian/Russian existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev (Russian Empire). He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution. He lived in Paris until his death.

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	All Things are Possible 4.07 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1905 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dostoevsky and Nietzsche 4.10 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1903 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Athens and Jerusalem 4.40 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1938 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nietzsche: The Good in the Teaching of Tolstoy and Nietzsche: Philosophy and Preaching, & Dostoevsky and Nietzsche: The Philosophy of Tragedy by Lev Shestov, Bernard Martin (Translator, introduction), Spencer Roberts (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1900 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revela葲iile mor葲ii. Dostoievski - Tolstoi 4.37 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1929 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy 4.21 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1934 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Noaptea din gradina Ghetsimani 3.93 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Things Are Possible and Penultimates Words and Other Essays 4.50 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Potestas Clavium by Lev Shestov, Bernard Martin (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1969 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	丿賵爻鬲賵賷賮爻賰賷賵丕賱賰賮丕丨囟丿丕賱亘丿賷賴賷丕鬲 by Lev Shestov, 賱賷賵賳卮賷爻鬲賵賮, 丕爻賰賳丿乇丨亘卮 (Translator) 3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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.”
― Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

tags: darwin, destruction, dostoevsky

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“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

tags: meaning, meaning-making, philosophy, question-everything, questioning, reassurance, uncertainty, upset

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“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, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

tags: judge, suffering

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