Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev.
“Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.”
“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.”
“The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.”
“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.”
“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 pe...”
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.”
“About my interests: I dont know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified. Otherwise, I love to eat and drink its...”
“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ”