65 Quotes by Nikolai Berdyaev

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Modern man, in pursuit of his aim to dominate the world, has become its slave

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

History is not an objective empirical datum, it is a myth.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

Each one of us shares in the destiny of the world and humanity, and must accept his own portion of the general responsibility

In order to see the world in a true light and everything in its proper shape, in order to contemplate the wide horizon, we must climb out of the pit of self-centeredness and rise to a height. We must see the center of being not in ourselves but in God, where it truly is, and then everything will fall into the right place. Humility in its ontological meaning is the heroic conquest of selfhood and ascent to the heights of theocentrism.

There are no such things as nations, States and societies existing as collective common realities which stand on a higher level than personality and turn it into part of themselves.

The Russians are a people in the highest degree polarized: they are a conglomeration of contradictions