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

It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.

- Lev Shestov

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that …

- Lev Shestov