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Unvarnished truth, that truth which runs contrary to the vital needs of human nature, is worse than any lie.

— Lev Shestov

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Is it possible to escape from the curse of knowledge?

Science pretends to the certainty, the universality, and the necessity of its statements.

Science is objective, indifferent; it does not consider whether a thing matters or not.

One of the outstanding examples of the unfree character of modern philosophical thought is perhaps the famous dispute between Hume and Kant.

We know how angry he was with Nietzsche for his formula "beyond good and evil", which had resuscitated the forgotten teaching of the old apostle.

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