Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed.

To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

There are as many loves as there are hearts.