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.

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 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.

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.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

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