If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?