44 Quotes by Nikolai A. Berdyaev

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.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

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

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

It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God’s claim on and call to man. God awaits man’s creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.

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

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.