All Things are Possible

Taking the words of Jesus that "With God, all things are possible", he [Shestov] extrapolates a philosophy of possibility or freedom as opposed to necessity or fate. For him, what it means to be human exists in the individual's struggle against the limitations and determinisms imposed by the misfortunes, sufferings, and ultimately end of his life. All that enriches the essential being of man and informs his most precious achievements is possible only in the denial that we could ever know what we are or what the 'the human condition' is. To 'know' something is to know all the results of all variables and products of all factors, like an algorithm in a machine.