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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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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

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It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

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Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.

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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

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She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

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Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

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Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

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Life did not stop, and one had to live.

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It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

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It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

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Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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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.

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He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

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