Quotes from Nikolai Berdyaev
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity
- Nikolai Berdyaev
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
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.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
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.
- 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 a religious question.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
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.
- Nikolai Berdyaev