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The new religious consciousness rises up against the nihilistic attitude towards the world and mankind.
For the new religious consciousness the declaration of the will of God is together with this a declaration of the rights of man, a revealing of the Divine within mankind.
We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality.
Political Testament (1949)
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 of state absolutism.
Slavery and Freedom (1939)
No one today likes truth: utility and self interest have long ago been substituted for truth.
Political Testament (1949)
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations.
The Destiny of Man (1931)
Orthodoxy is that form of Christianity which suffered the least distortion in its substance as a result of human history.
Christ cannot have human vicarage in the person of the tsar or high-priest.
It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.
Slavery and Freedom (1939)
Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.
The Beginning and the End (1947)
I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
The Beginning and the End (1947)
What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.
The Beginning and the End (1947)
The hierarchical subordination of the material to the spiritual is inverted.
The End of Our Time (1919)
The Christian world doesn't know Orthodoxy too well. It only knows the external and for the most part, the negative features of the Orthodox Church and not the inner spiritual treasure.
Fate and freedom alike play a part in history; and there are times, as in wars and revolutions, when fate is the stronger of the two.
Political Testament (1949)
Spirit, like flame, like freedom, like creativeness, is opposed to any social stagnation or any lifeless tradition.
Spirit and Reality (1946)
The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.
Slavery and Freedom (1939)
A real reconciliation of East and West is impossible and inconceivable on the basis of a materialistic Communism, or of a materialistic Capitalism, or indeed of a materialistic Socialism.
Political Testament (1949)
The greater part of Eastern teachers of the Church, from Clement of Alexandria to Maximus the Confessor, were supporters of Apokatastasis, of universal salvation and resurrection.
There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit.
Dream and Reality (1949)