I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night