Nikolai Berdyaev Self Quotations

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

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.