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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev [Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев] (18 March 1874 {O.S. 6 March} – 24 March 1948) was a Russian Christian universalist mystic and Christian anarchist political philosopher.
Absolutism
@ 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. ... The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.
Nikolai Berdyaev, in Slavery and Freedom (1939), p. 147
End
@ 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.
Nikolai Berdyaev, in The Beginning and the End (1947)
Truth
¶ I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
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