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

• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weird

• 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

• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• 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

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Ends
  • Eternity
  • Pains

• With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

  

  William Boyd
  • World
  • Film
  • Acting

• The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Universe

• 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