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
art attitude creativity
The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.
self
The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.
truth world tragic
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
spiritual moving humanity
The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.
evil would-be finals
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
thinking worry different
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.
spiritual soul humans
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
sacrifice hatred selfishness
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.
religion morality crosses
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.
spiritual men victory
Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
christian spiritual father
The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation...Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...The Kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, the universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.
religious attitude men
There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.
spiritual making-a-difference charity
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.