Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man,… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations.… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
