Frasi di Lev Isaakovič Šestov

Lev Isaakovič Šestov , nato Ieguda Lejb Švarcman è stato un filosofo russo di origine ebraica, esponente dell'esistenzialismo.

✵ 24. Gennaio 1866 – 19. Novembre 1938
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“[Riferito a Benjamin Fondane] Ciò che voi volete non è rinunciare alla conoscenza, ma oltrepassarla.”

citato in Ann van Sevenant, Il filosofo dei poeti: l'estetica di Benjamin Fondane, Mimesis, 1994

“Non fu l'uomo, bensì Dio a cogliere il frutto dell'albero proibito e ad assaggiarlo.”

citato in Ann van Sevenant, Il filosofo dei poeti: l'estetica di Benjamin Fondane, Mimesis, 1994

Lev Isaakovič Šestov: Frasi in inglese

“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."”

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
Origine: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, Words That Are Swallowed Up - Plotinus's Ecstasies

“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.””

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
Origine: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, The Conquest of the Self-Evident; Dostoievsky’s Philosophy

“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.”

Origine: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, The Conquest of the Self-Evident; Dostoievsky’s Philosophy p. 3

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