There 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 BerdyaevUtopias 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 BerdyaevSo great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations.
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 BerdyaevTrue life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.
Nikolai Berdyaev