Tuesday 2 December 2014

Nikolai Berdyaev

* There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
* Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
* A human prefers to be a slave because gaining freedom is always difficult.
Nikolai Berdyaev
 (Painting by Ivan Kramskoi )

 P. s Nikolai Berdyaev was almost my childhood's favourite philosopher!  :))))

2 comments:

Richard Cocks said...
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Richard Cocks said...

I love Berdyaev, but this is not a picture of Berdyaev. The painter died in 1887 and Berdyaev would have been about 13 at the time. Great quotations though!