Nikolai Berdyaev

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.

— 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

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

— 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

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness…

— 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

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic…

— 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

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

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

— 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

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

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

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“Reason is independent of all external authority, is outwardly autonomous; it is not, however, inwardly independent in relation to the whole life…

— 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

There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

— 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

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

— Nikolai Berdyaev