He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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.
Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Everything depends on upbringing.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.
Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.