The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God… — 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… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free. — 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
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
The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First… — 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… — 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… — 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
The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the… — 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
The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and… — 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
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… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
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… — 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
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.… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
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
