It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man. Lev Shestov More Quotes by Lev Shestov More Quotes From Lev Shestov 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 saws destruction law 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. Lev Shestov irritated atheism belief