Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

War is an abstraction.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.

The real war will never get in the books.

The camera will show the true face of war.

We can’t blow up the world because of it.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Everyone wants to see collisions, so I'm ready to give some.

Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

The world is on fire.

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

It's a god-eat-god world.

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.