The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. But passion is associated with sadness. Sadness does not only arise from… — 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
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself. — 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 me to… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
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 Image
