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“History is not an objective empirical datum, it is a myth.”
― Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

“Modern man, in pursuit of his aim to dominate the world, has become its slave”
― Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

“To understand the interior relationship between God and man as a drama of freely-given love is to lay bare the sources of history”
― Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

“the elaboration of a religious philosophy of history would appear to be the specific mission of Russian philosophical thought”
― Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

“Civilization is by its nature 鈥榖ourgeois鈥� in the deepest spiritual sense of the word. 鈥楤ourgeois鈥� is synonymous precisely with the civilized kingdom of this world and the civilized will to organized power and enjoyment of life. The spirit of civilization is that of the middle classes; it is attached and clings to corrupt and transitory things; and it fears eternity. To be a bourgeois is therefore to be a slave of matter and an enemy of eternity. The perfected European and American civilizations gave rise to the industrial-capitalist system, which represents not only a mighty economic development but the spiritual phenomenon of the annihilation of spirituality. The industrial Capitalism of civilisation proved to be the destroyer of the eternal spirit and the sacred traditions. Modern capitalist civilization is essentially atheistic and hostile to the idea of God. The crime of killing God must be laid at its door rather than at that of revolutionary Socialist, which merely adapted itself to the civilized 鈥榖ourgeois鈥� spirit and accepted its negative heritage.”
― Nicolas Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

“Germany at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries offers an example of the high efflorescence of culture; it then became famed as the land of 鈥榩oets and philosophers鈥�. Few epochs have displayed as much will to genius. In the course of several decades the world was enriched by such geniuses as Lessing and Herder, Goethe and Schiller, Kant and Fichte, Hegel and Schelling, Schleiermacher and Schopenhauer, Novalis and all the romantics. Succeeding ages will look back with envy at this great age. Windelband, the philosopher of its decline, remembers this time of spiritual integrity and spiritual genius as a lost paradise. But had the age of Goethe and Kant, Hegel and Novalis, attained to the authentic higher 鈥榣ife鈥�? All evidence tends to show that everyday life in Germany was then poor, middle class and oppressed. Germany was weak, wretched and split up into minute states; the power of 鈥榣ife鈥� had nowhere been realized; and the cultural efflorescence affected only the highest strata of the people whose general condition was lamentable enough.”
― Nicolas Berdyaev, The Meaning of History