Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

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

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

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.