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Nikolai Berdyaev
“It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.”
Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Nikolai Berdyaev
“It must be recognized that man in his limited and relative earthly life is capable of bringing about the beautiful and the valuable only when he believes in another life, unlimited, absolute, eternal. That is a law of his being. A contact with this mortal life exclusive of any other ends in the wearing-away of effective energy and a self-satisfaction that makes one useless and superficial. Only the spiritual man, striking his roots deep in infinite and eternal life, can be a true creator. But Humanism denied the spiritual man, handed over the eternal to the temporal, and took its stand by the natural man within the limited confines of the earth.”
Nikolai Berdyaev

C.S. Lewis
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
C.S. Lewis

Nikolai Berdyaev
“In reality, freedom is aristocratic, not democratic. With sorrow we must recognize the fact that freedom is dear only to those men who think creatively. It is not very necessary to those who do not value thinking. In the so-called democracies, based on the principle of popular sovereignty, a considerable proportion of the people are those who have not yet become conscious of themselves as free beings, bearing within themselves the dignity of freedom. Education to freedom is something still ahead of us, and this will not be achieved in a hurry.”
Nikolai Berdyaev

Bertolt Brecht
“A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.”
Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

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