The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.

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

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

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.