Conditions Quote by Nikolai Berdyaev

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

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

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 spiritual and…

— 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 material power.

— 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 very desire…

— 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 the earthly…

— 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 moral valuations.…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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