Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

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