Лев Исаакович Шестов цитаты

„Люди часто начинают стремиться к великим целям, когда чувствуют, что им не по силам маленькие задачи. И не всегда безрезультатно.“

„Действительная опасность никогда не устранялась словами и теориями.“

„Привычка к логическому мышлению убивает фантазию.“

„Мудрецы не больше знают, чем глупцы, — у них только больше храбрости и самоуверенности.“

„Нужно искать того, что выше сострадания, выше добра. Нужно искать Бога.“

„Самые важные и значительные мысли, откровения, являются на свет голыми, без словесной оболочки: найти для них слова — особое, очень трудное дело, целое искусство. И наоборот: глупости и пошлости сразу приходят наряженными в пестрые, хотя и старые, тряпки — так что их можно прямо, без всякого труда, преподносить публике.“

Источник: Шестов Л. И. Добро в учении гр. Толстого и Ницше. (Философия и проповедь)// Собр. соч. Т.1. Томск: Водолей, 1996. С. 316.

„«Найти там закон, где все видят нелепость, отыскать там смысл, где, по общему мнению, не может не быть бессмыслицы, и не прибегнуть ко лжи, к метафорам, к натяжкам, а держаться всё время правдивого воспроизведения действительности - это высший подвиг человеческого гения».Шестов Л. И.Шекспир и его критик Брандес / Собрание сочинений в 6-ти томах, Том 1, СПб, «Шиповник», 1911 г.“

“Philosophy can never reconcile itself with science. Science aims at self-evident truths and finds in them that "natural necessity" which, after having proclaimed itself for ever eternal, claims to serve as the foundation of all knowledge and strives to rule over all wanton "suddenly."”

Лев Исаакович Шестов: Цитаты на английском языке

“Spinoza’s formula, “Deus=natura=substantia”, like all conclusions drawn from it in his Ethics and his earlier works, simply means that there is no God. This discovery of Spinoza’s became the starting point for modern philosophical thought.”

But philosophy has always been, and will always be, a fight with and a conquest of self-evident truths; philosophy is not looking for any "natural necessity", it sees in naturalness and in necessity alike an evil magic, which, if one cannot quite shake it off (for in this no mortal has ever yet succeeded), yet one must at least call by its right name; and even this is an important step! p. 342
Источник: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, Words That Are Swallowed Up - Plotinus's Ecstasies

“We burn with longing to find some firm stance, some ultimate, unshakable basis, on which we may build the tower that can reach up to infinity. But all our foundations crack and earth opens to the abyss. THEREFORE LET US NOT SEEK CERTAINTY OR SECURITY.”

Источник: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, Foreword p. xxxix

“The first commandment of modern philosophy runs: Thou shalt emancipate thyself from all postulates. The postulate has been declared a deadly sin, and he who makes one is the enemy of truth.”

Источник: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, Gethsemane Night - Pascal's Philosophy p. 284-285

“Reason, which is based upon the world common to us all, which furnishes us with truths like "twice two is four" and "nothing happens without a cause" this reason not only cannot justify and explain these new terrors and anxieties of Tolstoy's; it condemns them pitilessly as unreasonable, motiveless, arbitrary, and consequently unreal and visionary.”

Источник: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, On The Philosophy of History p. 247

“There are no ideals exalting the soul, but only chains, invisible indeed, but binding man more securely than iron. And no act of heroism, no “good work” can open the doors to man’s “perpetual confinement.””

Источник: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, The Last Judgment; Tolstoy's Last Words p. 101

“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.”

Dostoievsky’s barrack vows of “improvement” now appeared to him as a sacrilege. He experience which he underwent was much the same as Luther’s when he remembered with such unfeigned horror and disgust the vows which he had pronounced on entering the convent. P. 10
Источник: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, The Conquest of the Self-Evident; Dostoievsky’s Philosophy