"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."
"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."
"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."
"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
"If you want to be happy, be."
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."