Man shows his character best in trifles.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.