Nikolai Berdyaev

God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

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

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored.…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

— Nikolai Berdyaev