The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.