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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

“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They are not satisfied with simply despising and condemning their neighbour themselves, they want the condemnation to be universal and supreme: that is, that all men should rise as one against the condemned, and that even the offender's own conscience shall be against him. Then only are they fully satisfied and reassured. Nothing on earth but morality could lead to such wonderful results.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“Once an idea is there, the gates must be opened to it.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

“And many a time, towards the end of life, does the genius repent of his choice. "It would be better not to startle the world, but to live at one with it," says Ibsen in his last drama. Genius is a wretched, blind maniac, whose eccentricities are condoned because of what is got from him.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“Whilst stay-at-home persons are searching for truth, the apple will stay on the tree.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had to give up milk and take to vodka, - and this is the inevitable law of human development - the childish suckling dreams receded into the realm of the irretrievable past.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not in the modest doses that idealism offers, but in immoderate quantities, thousand-gallon-barrel gulps. He would taste the bitterness, but it would not make his head turn, as it does Schiller's, or Dostoevsky's, or even Socrates鈥�, whose head, as we know, could stand any quantity of wine, but went spinning with the most commonplace lie.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called failing as a natural quality. The more grave and important the defect, the more urgent is the need to ennoble it.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

“Objectionable, tedious, irritating labour, - this is the condition of genius, which no doubt explains the reason why men so rarely achieve anything. Genius must submit to cultivate an ass within itself - the condition being so humiliating that man will seldom take up the job.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“We very often express in a categorical form a judgment of which we do not feel assured, we even lay stress on its absolute validity. We want to see what opposition it will arouse, and this can be achieved only by stating our assumption not as a tentative suggestion, which no one will consider, but as an irrefutable, all-important truth. The greater the value of the assumption has for us, the more carefully do we conceal any suggestion of its improbability.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“Many a present-day Alcibiades, who laves all the week in the muddy waters of life, comes on Sundays to cleanse himself in the pure stream of Tolstovian ideas. Book-keeping is satisfied with this modest success, and assumes that if it commands universal attention one day in the week, then obviously it is the sum and essence of life, beyond which man needs nothing. On the same grounds the keepers of public baths could argue that, since so many people come to them on Saturdays, therefore cleanliness is the highest ambition of man, and during the week no one should stir at all, lest he sweat or soil himself.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“But nobody has ever yet called a philosopher "a hired conscience," though everybody gives the lawyer this nickname. Why this partiality?”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too far from actuality. Even those who did not know what to do with "real life" had to cope with it as best they could. Hence, in order that the picture of life should not prove too depressing, the writer must provide himself in due season with a philosophy.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“Pushkin could cry hot tears, and he who can weep can hope. "I want to live, so that I may think and suffer," he says; and it seems as if the word "to suffer," which is so beautiful in the poem, just fell in accidentally, because there was no better rhyme in Russian for "to die.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“袪懈屑褋泻懈械 邪胁谐褍褉褘 懈屑械谢懈 斜芯谢械械 褌芯薪泻懈泄 懈 谐懈斜泻懈泄 褍屑, 褔械屑 褋芯胁褉械屑械薪薪褘械 谢懈褌械褉邪褌芯褉褘: 褔褌芯斜 芯斜屑邪薪褘胁邪褌褜 写褉褍谐懈褏, 懈屑 薪械 薪褍卸薪芯 斜褘谢芯 芯斜屑邪薪褘胁邪褌褜 褋械斜褟.”
― 袥械胁 楔械褋褌芯胁, All Things are Possible

“If you turn to the right, you will marry, if to the left, you will be killed." A true philosopher never chooses the middle course; he needs no riches, he does not know what to do with money. But whether he turns to the right or to the left, nothing pleasant awaits him.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“袠 薪邪 褋屑械薪褍 褋褌邪褉芯谐芯 credo, quia absurdum 褟胁懈谢芯褋褜 薪芯胁芯械, 胁械褉薪械械, 芯斜薪芯胁谢褢薪薪芯械 懈 薪械褍蟹薪邪薪薪芯械 credo, ut intelligam”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“袧邪褕懈 褋芯胁褉械屑械薪薪懈泻懈 薪械 褏芯褌褟褌 懈褋泻邪褌褜 懈 锌芯褌芯屑褍 褌邪泻 屑薪芯谐芯 褉邪蟹谐芯胁邪褉懈胁邪褞褌 芯 褌械芯褉懈懈 锌芯蟹薪邪薪懈褟.”
― 袥械胁 楔械褋褌芯胁, All Things are Possible

“..谐芯谢芯胁邪 袦械写褍蟹褘 薪械 褌邪泻 褋褌褉邪褕薪邪, 泻邪泻 蟹邪泻芯薪 锌褉懈褔懈薪薪芯褋褌懈.”
― 袥械胁 楔械褋褌芯胁, All Things are Possible

“袩芯泻邪 芯褋械写谢褘械 谢褞写懈 斜褍写褍褌 懈褋泻邪褌褜 懈褋褌懈薪褘, 褟斜谢芯泻芯 褋 写械褉械胁邪 锌芯蟹薪邪薪懈褟 薪械 斜褍写械褌 褋芯褉胁邪薪芯.”
― 袥械胁 楔械褋褌芯胁, All Things are Possible

“Anton Chekhov tells the truth neither out of love or respect for the truth, nor yet because, in the Kantian manner, a high duty bids him never to tell a lie, even to escape death. Neither has he the impulse which so often pushes young and fiery souls into rashness: that desire to stand erect, to keep the head high. On the contrary, Chekhov always walks with a stoop, his head bent down, never fixing his eyes on the heavens, since he will read no signs there. If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not in the modest doses that idealism offers, but in immoderate quantities, thousand-gallon-barrel gulps.”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible

“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his disillusionment. Europe had dropped miracles ages ago; she contented herself with ideals. It is we in Russia who will go on confusing miracles with ideals, as if the two were identical, whereas they have nothing to do with each other. As a matter of fact, just because Europe had ceased to believe in miracles, and realised that all human problems resolve down to mere arrangements here on earth, ideas and ideals had been invented. But the Russian bear crept out of his hole and strolled to Europe for the elixir of life, the flying carpet, the seven-leagued shoes, and so on, thinking in all his na茂vet茅 that railways and electricity were signs which clearly proved that the old nurse never told a lie in her fairy tales...”
― Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible