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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

  • Attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev:

    “Slavery to one's own self is the deepest form of slavery.”

  • “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