Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes on Truth
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious-existentialist philosopher. This page collects quotes attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev:
“Freedom precedes being.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev:
“The end is the meaning of history.”
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“The Truth of Orthodoxy" as translated in Vestnik of the Russian West European Patriarchal Exarchate (1952)”
The Christian world doesn't know Orthodoxy too well. It only knows the external and for the most part, the negative features of the Orthodox Church and not the inner spiritual treasure. Orthodoxy was locked inside itself, it did not have the spirit of proselytism and did not reveal itself to the world. For the longest time, Orthodoxy did not have such world-wide significance as did Catholicism and -
“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