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“Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.” quote by Nikolai Berdyaev — Download Open image

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

Nikolai Berdyaev

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

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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 us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently…

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Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

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

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

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

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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…

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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 future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in…

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

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

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Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good…

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

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