Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

Nikolai Berdyaev

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• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

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• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

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• There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.

  

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• The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security.

  

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• Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.

  

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• I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

  

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• A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

  

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• I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."

  

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• He who love touches walks not in darkness.

  

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• Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

  

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• The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.

  

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• I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

  

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• Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

  

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• What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

  

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• If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.

  

  Rabbi Akiva
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• The simulations show us where the hot spots are, and they show us how we should prioritize the strengthening of buildings. That's the most important thing.

  

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• There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

  

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• The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

  

  Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Consciousness
  • Source
  • Originality