“Fear of Nothingness compels man to search for refuge and protection in knowledge, i.e., in truths which are uncreated, independent of anyone, general and necessary, and, as we think, capable of saving us from the fortuities of free will with which existence is inundated.”
Lev Shestov, Kierkegaard and the Existential Philosophy, trans. Elinor Hewitt, p. 286-7