In human individuality, many circles are intertwined, and they form a person as a whole. Organically and by blood, a person belongs to his race, his nation, his social class and his family, and within this unique individuality, which belongs only to him, all racial, national, class, and familial characteristics of heritage, traditions, customs, and habits are originally intertwined...
In the human type, race has enormous significance. A person may overcome the limitations of race and move toward the infinite, but he must possess an individualized, personal self...
Culture is not the property of one person or one generation. Culture exists in our blood; culture is a part of race and racial selection... No social revolution can destroy the qualitative advantages of race.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
The Philosophy of Inequality, year 1923.