“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.” MenWorldBelieveHumansDoeStatesHandsEarthBeliefReligiousAttitudeMankindAuthorityHuman LifeSoilHopelessPessimismOrthodoxyUnitingAbsolutismFuture Of Mankind Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.” WorldMadePhilosophyProblemValuesEvilSinDealsMoralEthicsConcernedUniversalDistinctionGood And EvilSignificanceSpheresProvincesEvaluationValuation 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
“In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.” WorldActivityArtisticCosmosEnlightenedNew World 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
“We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.” WorldReligiousStandingDividesCosmicThresholdEpochCreativeness Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” WorldLittlesHas BeensReligiousCreativityGeniusTragedySaintOur WorldEpochCreativeness Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.” WorldTruthPureTragicClash Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” WorldNeedsCharacterFeelingsSpiritualUsedEvilWinningGrowthAttitudeSucceedHatredMethodBlindAgentsSatanEnlightenedRejoiceDiabolical Author: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.” WorldHumansSpiritualMovingHumanityProcessCreationDemandNewnessHuman FreedomCreation Of The World Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” WorldIdeasEarthChristianSpiritualValuesFatherHeavenConsciousnessHellCreaturesUniversalSalvationKingdomsCosmosResurrectionEasternKingdom Of GodNew EarthTransfiguration Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” PeopleMenWorldCountryLastsNationsExistenceBearsWitnessJudgementSufficientJustificationSelf Sufficient Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.” WorldRealitySpiritFoundObjectsHighest Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” WorldFirstsDoeIdeasFacesPassionCausesSadnessEternityPhilosopherAriseExplorationDedicated Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” WorldEndsActionMoralSacrificeHatredMercySupremeCrueltySelfishnessReignEnd Of The WorldActs Of Love Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
