65 Quotes by Nikolai Berdyaev

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

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

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.

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.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

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.

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

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.

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.