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.

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.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

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.