Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.
Nikolai BerdyaevThe bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
Nikolai BerdyaevThe 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.
Nikolai BerdyaevThere is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Nikolai BerdyaevOur attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently revealed in the Gospels, but to which we are persistently blind.
Nikolai Berdyaev