Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

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• Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

  

  Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Old
  • Self-realization
  • Elaboration