Occupation: Philosopher Birth: March 18, 1874 Death: March 23, 1948
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one..
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare..
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history..
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 so….
There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...….
It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits m….
Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man..
The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in m….
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme..
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old..
There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. ….
Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the mome….
The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cos….
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 ….
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkn….
True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congeali….
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 fr….
Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from no….
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..
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself..
Creativity is the mystery of freedom..