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# Nikolai Berdyaev on his rejection of family ties and kinship in the book “Self-Knowledge”
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- Published: 2024-07-09T16:02:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:34:39.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
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"I have never had any feeling of descent from a father and mother, I have never felt that I was born of parents. A dislike of everything ancestral is a characteristic trait of mine. I do not love the family and family life, and I am struck by the attachment of the Western peoples to the family principle..."

Nikolai Berdyaev. "Self-Knowledge"