Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare. Nikolai Berdyaev More Quotes by Nikolai Berdyaev More Quotes From Nikolai Berdyaev The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority. Nikolai Berdyaev religious attitude believe We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide. Nikolai Berdyaev threshold religious world 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. Nikolai Berdyaev creativity depth identity 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. Nikolai Berdyaev creativity creative men The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. But passion is associated with sadness. Sadness does not only arise from death which makes us face the Eternity, but also from life which causes us to confront the Time. Nikolai Berdyaev passion sadness ideas Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature. Nikolai Berdyaev realist human-nature artist The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the truth that there has not yet been in our world a religious epoch of creativity. Nikolai Berdyaev creativity our-world religious Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth. Nikolai Berdyaev paradise-on-earth creative heaven ...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. Nikolai Berdyaev divinity creative men 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. Nikolai Berdyaev meaning-of-life real literature Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself. Nikolai Berdyaev objectification alienation spirit It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it. Nikolai Berdyaev disputes limits exercise Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity Nikolai Berdyaev russia humanity names In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free. Nikolai Berdyaev cosmos artistic world The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. Nikolai Berdyaev myself neighbor spiritual bread
