Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

Nikolai Berdyaev

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• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Game
  • Very
  • Gangster

• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
  • Care

• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Ignorant

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Book
  • True

• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Home
  • Song

• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Train
  • Through
  • Basics

• Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Nice
  • Flower
  • Weed

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Aunt

• My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Father

• The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Nature

• Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Nature

• Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.

  

  John Mayer
  • Black

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Cheating

• My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Father
  • Fighting
  • Hurt

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• Anita Sarkeesian: For me, the big picture has always been culture change, and pop culture was just a vehicle and a medium through which cultural change can happen or it can be influenced by; so it’s not actually about video games. But it’s about video games, right?

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Culture
  • Picture

• Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

  

  Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Death
  • Evil
  • Eternity