Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

It is both auspicious and peaceful for people to choose vegetarinism.

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.