#leon chestov

[veemignon]

The only true solution is precisely where human judgment sees no solution. Otherwise, what need would we have of God? We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. As for the possible, men suffice.

Leon Chestov

[outofthedarkness]

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 neighbor 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 (Apotheosis of Groundlessness)

[outofthedarkness]

Literature deals with the most difficult and important problems of existence, and therefore, littйrateurs consider themselves the most important of people. A bank clerk, who is always handing money out, might just as well consider himself a millionaire.

Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible (Apotheosis of Groundlessness)

[outofthedarkness]

The habit of logical thinking kills imagination. Man is convinced that the only way to truth is through logic, and that any departure from this way leads to error and absurdity.

Lev Shestov, All Things are Possible (Apotheosis of Groundlessness)

[outofthedarkness]

Therefore the skeptics are wrong when they assert that there is no truth. Truth exists, but we do not know it in all its volume, nor can we formulate that which we do know: we cannot imagine why it happened thus and not otherwise, or whether that which happened had to happen thus, or whether something else quite different might have happened.

Lev Shestov, Penultimate Words