The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
Nikolai BerdyaevIn every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.
Nikolai BerdyaevPhilosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.
Nikolai BerdyaevThe overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.
Nikolai BerdyaevThe central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation...Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...The Kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, the universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.
Nikolai Berdyaev