Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes on Mind
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious-existentialist philosopher. This page collects quotes attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev:
“Slavery to one's own self is the deepest form of slavery.”
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“I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.”
The Beginning and the End(1947) | Introduction -
“Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.”
The Beginning and the End(1947) | p. 63 -
“Spirit is never an object; nor a spiritual reality an objective one. In the so-called objective world there's no such nature , thing, or objective reality as spirit. Hence it is easy to deny the reality of spirit. God is spirit because he is not object, because he is subject.”
Spirit and Reality(1946) | p. 10