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“Creativity is the mystery of freedom.”

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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

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“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

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

World Activity Artistic Cosmos Enlightened New World

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“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

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“Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.”

Men Self Process Creation Self Realization Realization Permanent Expenses

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“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.”

“We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.”

World Religious Standing Divides Cosmic Threshold Epoch Creativeness

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