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
religious attitude believe
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 the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.
paradise-on-earth creative heaven
Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.
creativity mystery appearance
Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other....
freedom spirit
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
country men people
So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations.
sex men solitude
The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.
thinking
I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
sex men female
In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
men self personality
But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.
darkness movement return
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.
men self realization
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
spiritual men confusion
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.
church path kingdoms
The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
christian believe people
The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.