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.

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

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

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations.

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.