The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly.

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

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.

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.