Quotes from Nikolai Berdyaev
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.
— Nikolai Berdyaev