Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.
In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.
Dostoevsky – is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God’s claim on and call to man. God awaits man’s creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.
Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.
Creativity is the mystery of freedom.
True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.
Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is – robbing humanity.
Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.
Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia’s existence.
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
The distinction between the things of Caesar and the things of God is constantly being erased in our fallen world, and this always indicates that the Kingdom of Caesar is attempting to swallow up the Kingdom of God.
God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.
It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.
The war educated a generation of believers in force. The demons of hatred and murder then released continue their activity.
Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism.
And when there are no more classes, when society is socially democratized and unified, then there will be revealed in all its metaphysical depths the never-ending tragedy of the conflict between personality and society.
The idea of Slavic unity, is first of all a Russo-Polish unity.