The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

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

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

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.

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

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.