A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.