I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love. |
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of thegreatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and mostobvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsityof conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. |
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders. |
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. |
If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. |
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing. |
If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. |
If one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be. |
If only it be admitted that art may be unintelligible to any one of sound mind and yet be art, there is no reason why any circle of perverted people should not compose works tickling their own perverted feelings and comprehensible to no one but thems |
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. |
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. |
If there is no higher reason--and there is none--then my own reason must be the supreme judge of my life |
If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of |
If you want to be happy, be. |
In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic |