Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

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.

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.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

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.

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.