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Quotes from The End of Our Time — Nikolai Berdyaev

1874–1948 Russia

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The hierarchical subordination of the material to the spiritual is inverted.

The End of Our Time (1919)

In order to be able to go on living it is possible that the bankrupt peoples will have to enter on a new path of self-denial, by curbing their covetousness and putting a check on the indefinite expansion of their wants, and by having smaller families.

The End of Our Time (1919)

Nobody is bound to have an optimistic outlook on the future: that is not a precept of the Christian religion. ... It is a matter of immense importance that illusions should be dispelled and man come face to face with positive realities.

The End of Our Time (1919)

Socialists take over from bourgeois capitalist society its materialism, its atheism, its cheap prophets, its hostility against the spirit and all spiritual life, its restless striving for success and amusement, its personal selfishness, its incapacity for interior recollection.

The End of Our Time (1919)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nikolai Berdyaev (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.