Nikolai Berdyaev

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Nikolai Berdyaev


Born
in Kyiv, Ukraine
March 18, 1874

Died
March 24, 1948

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Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born at Kyiv in 1874 of an aristocratic family. He commenced his education in a military school and subsequently entered the University of Kiev. There he accepted Marxism and took part in political agitation, for which he was expelled. At twenty-five he was exiled from Kiev to the north of Russia and narrowly escaped a second period of exile shortly before the Revolution. Before this, however, he had broken with Marxism in company with Sergius Bulgakov, and in 1909 he contributed to a symposium which reaffirmed the values of Orthodox Christianity. After the October Revolution he was appointed by the Bolshevists to a chair of philosophy in the University of Moscow, but soon fell into disfavour for his indep ...more

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“Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.”
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“The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.”
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“There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.”
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