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Quote by 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.”

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Nikolai Berdyaev

Russian philosopher born on March 18, 1874, and died on March 23, 1948. Nikolai Berdyaev is known for his contributions to religious philosophy, existentialism, and liberalism. more

“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.”

World Mean Desire Creativity Creative Bases Foundation Depth Inexplicable

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.”

Way Today Culture Found Creativity Subjects Identity Objects Crisis Depth Creator Spheres Turning Points Foreseen Ripening

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.”

World Activity Artistic Cosmos Enlightened New World

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“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.”

Men Persons Self Universe Personality Gains Universal Filled Mastery Egocentric Confinement

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev