Modern man, in pursuit of his aim to dominate the world, has become its slave

History is not an objective empirical datum, it is a myth.

Each one of us shares in the destiny of the world and humanity, and must accept his own portion of the general responsibility

The Russians are a people in the highest degree polarized: they are a conglomeration of contradictions

The Russian Intelligentsia is a quite special and peculiar thing; as a spiritual and a social form it existed only in Russia. The Intelligentsia was an idealistic class, a class of people wholly influenced by ideas and ready to face prison, hard labour and death for the sake of their ideas

God is present and God acts only in freedom. He is not present nor does he act in necessity. God is to be found in truth, in Goodness, Beauty and Love, but not in the world order

the elaboration of a religious philosophy of history would appear to be the specific mission of Russian philosophical thought

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.

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