Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes on Life
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious-existentialist philosopher. This page collects quotes attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev:
“Personality is created by God and is itself creative.”
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“The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth , in the earthly future of mankind ; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world . Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority .”
Nihilism On A Religious Soil" (6 May 1907) -
“It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.”
Slavery and Freedom (1939), p. 145 -
“What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.”
The Beginning and the End(1947) -
“In order to be able to go on living it is possible that the bankrupt peoples will have to enter on a new path of self-denial, by curbing their covetousness and putting a check on the indefinite expansion of their wants, and by having smaller families.”
The End of Our Time(1919) | p. 94