id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3069 Lev Shestov - Wikipedia .html text/html 3694 424 64 During this time he completed his first major philosophical work, Good in the Teaching of Tolstoy and Nietzsche: Philosophy and Preaching; two authors profoundly impacting Shestov's thought. The positive central idea is that the human psyche, or soul, really believes in itself, and in nothing else".[2] Shestov deals with key issues such as religion, rationalism, and science in this highly approachable work, topics he would also examine in later writings such as In Job's Balances.[3] Shestov's own key quote from this work is probably the following: "...we need to think that only one assertion has or can have any objective reality: that nothing on earth is impossible. More recently, alongside Dostoyevsky's philosophy, many have found solace in Shestov's battle against the rational self-consistent and self-evident; for example Bernard Martin of Case Western Reserve University, who translated his works now found online [external link below]; and the scholar Liza Knapp,[6] who wrote The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3069.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3069.txt