Lev Shestov Quotes
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.
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.
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.