Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaevwas a Russian religious and political philosopher...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 March 1874
CountryRussian Federation
Nikolai Berdyaev quotes about
creativity men creative
It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.
cosmos world artistic
In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.
religious world threshold
We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.
creativity identity today
In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.
creativity mean creative
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 to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.
philosophy creative perception
Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.
book reading creative
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly.
creativity reality origin-of-life
There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.
exercise limits tendencies
It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.
spiritual attitude character
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 revealed in the Gospels, but to which we are persistently blind.
worship economic economic-power
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
passion sadness ideas
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 death which makes us face the Eternity, but also from life which causes us to confront the Time.
religious creativity our-world
The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the truth that there has not yet been in our world a religious epoch of creativity.
mean writing desire
The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.