The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man… — 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 Image
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 us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently… — 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 Image
The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in… — 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 Image
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good… — 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 Image
