Nikolai Berdyaev World Quotations

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the truth that there has not yet been in our world a religious epoch of creativity.

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.

God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.