Great Throughts Treasury
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Lev Shestov, fully Lev Isaakovich Shestov, born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann
Russian Jewish Thinker, Existentialist Philosopher and Literary Critic
"It is perhaps not important in the end that men either admit or deny God. This neither adds nor takes away anything from His existence."
"If we compare our knowledge with that of the ancients, we appear very wise. But we are not nearer to solving the riddle of eternal justice than Cain was."
"We live surrounded by an endless multitude of mysteries. But no matter how enigmatic may be the mysteries which surround being, what is most enigmatic and disturbing is that mystery in general exists and that we are somehow definitely and forever cut off from the sources and beginnings of life."