Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaevwas a Russian religious and political philosopher...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth18 March 1874
CountryRussian Federation
sex men solitude
The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.
thinking
I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
sex men female
In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
men self personality
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.
darkness movement return
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.
spiritual men confusion
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.
church path kingdoms
The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
christian believe people
The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.
art attitude creativity
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.
self
The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.
truth world tragic
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
spiritual moving humanity
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.
evil would-be finals
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
thinking worry different
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.