Nikolai A. Berdyaev

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

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

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.

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

And when there are no more classes, when society is socially democratized and unified, then there will be revealed in all its metaphysical depths the never-ending tragedy of the conflict between personality and society.