Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

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.

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia’s existence.

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is – robbing humanity

The physical union of the sexes … only intensifies man’s sense of solitude.

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

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

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

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.

Dostoevsky – is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.