Berdyaev Truth Quotes & Sayings

Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice. — Kobayashi Issa

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by. — Ozzy Osbourne

Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character ... Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself ... A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently revealed in the Gospels, but to which we are persistently blind. — Nikolai Berdyaev

When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind,
He discovers the all-pervading Self. — Gian Kumar

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

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it. — Nikolai Berdyaev

Like an ocean, a clarity where longing gets started. — Ana Enriqueta Teran

I would say ... that moving jobs overseas is a reality of global competition, ... If you come from Pennsylvania, we've lost a lot of jobs from global competition. I think that's just a truth, if you will. — Rick Santorum

How well do you know the people who raised you? Look around your dining room table. Look around at your loved ones, especially the elders. The grandparents and the aunts and uncles who used to give you shiny new quarters and unvarnished advice. How much do you really know about their lives. Perhaps you've heard that they served in a war, or lived for a time in a log cabin, or arrived in this country speaking little or no English. Maybe they survived the Holocaust or the Dust Bowl. How were they shaped by the Depression or the Cold War, or the stutter-step march towards integration in their own community? What were they like before they married or took on mortgages and assumed all the worries that attend the feeding, clothing, and education of their children? If you don't already know the answers, the people who raised you will most likely remain a mystery, unless you take the bold step and say: Tell me more about yourself. — Michele Norris

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way. — Robin G. Collingwood

Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson. — Sukhraj S. Dhillon

It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it. — Robert Aris Willmott

War is, among other things, impatience. — Brian Zahnd

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [ ... ] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power ... the Kingdom of God is anarchy. — Nikolai Berdyaev