Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
—Nikolai Berdyaev
Topics: Fear, Anxiety, Victory
The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one’s consciousness from its primary source.
—Nikolai Berdyaev
Topics: Originality
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
—Nikolai Berdyaev
Topics: Helping
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.
—Nikolai Berdyaev
Topics: Conscience
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
—Nikolai Berdyaev
Topics: Atheism
Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.
—Nikolai Berdyaev
Topics: Time Management
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