By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

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