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The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing interest? — Lev Shestov

Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness). — Lev Shestov

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible. — Lev Shestov

Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor. — Lev Shestov

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well. — Peter Kreeft

Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience. — Iain Banks

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action. — Ty Pennington

It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man. — Lev Shestov

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. — Ludwig Von Mises

Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed. — Jenny Han

He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny. — Lev Shestov

When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams. — Charlie Rose

One must not ask for sincere autobiographies from writers. Fiction was invented precisely to give men the possibility of expressing themselves freely. — Lev Shestov

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead. — Bill Gates

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

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren

More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position. — Lev Shestov

( ... )on earth everything has a beginning and nothing has an end. — Lev Shestov

A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one. — Evan Esar

(From Slices) Her skirt's so short, she's advertisin' the promised land. Somebody oughta slap her naked, then set a match to that git-up. — Savannah

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence. — Lev Shestov

Whatever you can think about, you can have it realized, provided you can work out the suggestions of your imaginations. — Israelmore Ayivor

To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty. — Lev Shestov