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Men Quotes by Nikolai Berdyaev
- So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in…
- Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
- The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.
- In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female,…
- There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form…
- Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of…
- The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future…
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