The Russian Yearning For The Meaning Of

The Meaning Of Conservatism Is Not That It Impedes Movement Forward And Upward, But That It Impedes Movement Backwards And Downwards—to Chaotic Darkness And The Return To A Primitive State.

The Physical Union Of The Sexes ... Only Intensifies Man's Sense Of Solitude.

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.

We Find The Most Terrible Form Of Atheism, Not In The Militant And Passionate Struggle Against The Idea Of God Himself, But In The Practical Atheism Of Everyday Living, In Indifference And Torpor. We Often Encounter These Forms Of Atheism Among Those Who Are Formally Christians.

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.