Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other...
The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.
The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards – to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.
I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.
So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations.
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.
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly.
We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.