Lev Shestov Quotes

Lev Isaakovich Shestov was a Russian Jewish religious-existentialist philosopher who emigrated after the Bolshevik revolution and spent the rest of his life in Paris. Through readings of Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and the Hebrew Bible, he attacked the rationalist tradition from Plato to his own day, arguing that necessity is a tyrant and that the truths of faith are inaccessible to reason but liberate the person to whom they are given. The quotes below are attributed to Lev Shestov, organized by topic.