Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

- Nikolai Berdyaev

Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the mome…

- Nikolai Berdyaev

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...…

- Nikolai Berdyaev

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

- Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

- Nikolai Berdyaev

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congeali…

- Nikolai Berdyaev

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

- Nikolai Berdyaev

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkn…

- Nikolai Berdyaev

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

- Nikolai Berdyaev