Lev Shestov Quotes on Knowledge
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Lev Shestov on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Lev Shestov:
“Athens and Jerusalem cannot be reconciled.”
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Attributed to Lev Shestov:
“Reason has its limits; faith begins where reason ends.”
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Attributed to Lev Shestov:
“Philosophy is the daring of those who refuse foundations.”
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“What can be more terrible than not to know whether one is alive or dead? “Justice” should insist that this knowledge or this ignorance should be the prerogative of every human being. p. 3”
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“Plato, too, knew the “underground”, but her called it a “cave” and created his splendid world-famous myth in which men were likened to prisoners in a cave. But he did it in such a way that no one thought of calling Plato’s cave “underground” nor calling Plato himself a sickly, abnormal being, one of those for whom normal men have to invent theories, treatments, etc. p. 13”
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