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

The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the truth that there has not yet been in our world a religious epoch of creativity.

Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.

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

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.

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.