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.
Nikolai BerdyaevFreedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
Nikolai BerdyaevCreativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.
Nikolai BerdyaevThere is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Nikolai Berdyaev...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
Nikolai BerdyaevThere is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. Sin is dividedness, a state of deficiency, incompleteness, dissociation, enslavement, hatred, but it is not disobedience and not formal violation of the will of God.
Nikolai Berdyaev