The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex,… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe,… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
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 Image
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. — 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
So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the… — 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
The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — 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
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