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

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

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.

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

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

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.