God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
Nikolai BerdyaevIn sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
Nikolai BerdyaevIn every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.
Nikolai BerdyaevI never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly.
Nikolai BerdyaevThe meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwardsโto chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.
Nikolai BerdyaevThe essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.
Nikolai Berdyaev