“Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.” EarthHeavenCreativeRevelationsEnd TimesRenewalKingdom Of GodGlory Of GodKingdom Of HeavenHeaven On EarthNew EarthTransfigurationGoing To HeavenThree DimensionsPets In HeavenBook Of RevelationHeaven And DeathParadise On EarthOrthodox ChurchHeavenly Home Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.” SelfLife IsCreativityCreativeFireDevelopmentPerfectionTrue LifeHeavinessSelf Perfection Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.” HumansPhilosophySpiritExistenceCreativePerceptionHuman Existence Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.” MenStatesMomentsLyingCreativeProductsActivitySlaveryLiberationEcstasyCreativeness Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” WorldMeanDesireCreativityCreativeBasesFoundationDepthInexplicable Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” MenWorldArtAttitudeBreakCreativityCreativeThis WorldVictoryEssentialsConceptsBurdenArtisticGlimpseAnother WorldBreak OutCreative ArtHeavinessTransfigurationArtistic CreativityBurdens Of Life Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.” MenHumansCreativeDivineThirdsDivinityEpochDivine PowerHuman Power Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” MenMindHumansCreativityCreativeBearsClaimsResponseImperatives Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” MindBookMatterRememberReadingProcessCreativeActivityConstantEngagedPassiveLeading Me Author:Nikolai Berdyaev