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.

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. But passion is associated with sadness. Sadness does not only arise from death which makes us face the Eternity, but also from life which causes us to confront the Time.

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.

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

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