Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Nikolai Berdyaev (Russian Christian Philosopher)

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874–1948) was a Russian religious and political philosopher. Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 into an aristocratic military family. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Berdyaev, came from a long line of nobility from Kiev and Kharkov. Almost all of his ancestors were high-ranking military officers, but he himself resigned from the army quite early and became active in the social life of Kiev aristocracy. Nikolai’s mother, Alina Sergeevna Berdyaeva, was half French, also coming from top levels of French and Russian nobility. Berdyaev’s father was an educated man, greatly influenced by Voltaire. He considered himself a free thinker and was very skeptical toward religion. Nikolai’s mother, orthodox by birth, was in her views on religion more catholic than orthodox. This could be one of the reasons why Berdyaev, a very religious man and a religious philosopher, despised the official Orthodox Church. He spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father’s library allowed him to read widely. He read Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Kant when only fourteen years old and excelled at languages.

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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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