And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.