"The more the Demiurge commands, the less it is necessary to obey. The Demiurge calls the man enchained by Necessity to ultimate freedom." - Shestov
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"If one wishes to enjoy pleasures, he must go and seek them at all-powerful Necessity. He must reluctantly renounce the sovereign jubere (command) and return to the parere (obedience) that has been admitted throughout all time." - Shestov
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"If one drove Necessity from the world, knowledge would become a dream... a posteriori judgments have obtained the exalted rank of eternal truths; but if Necessity disappeared, a priori judgments themselves would return to the subaltern state of perishable beings."
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“The difference between the divine mind and our own is similar to that between making and seeing. The divine mind creates through thinking, our own imitates through thinking or through intellectual vision. The divine mind is creative power, our own is imitative power.”
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It is true, and this is something that must never be forgotten, that the fear of freedom is undoubtedly the basic characteristic of our perhaps distorted but nonetheless real human nature. At the depth of our souls we aspire to limit God Himself, to curtail His creative activity
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"The totality of these impossibles and of the possibles that correspond to them forms a whole science. This science, which precedes every other knowledge, which precedes reality itself, is the basic philosophical science." - Shestov
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Interesting, will have to check this out.
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