"The fundamental commandment of ethics, then, is that we cause no suffering to any living creature, not even the lowes…"

"If I save an insect from a puddle, life has devoted itself to life, and the division of life against itself is ended."

"I too am subject to division of my will-to-life against itself. In a thousand ways my existence stands in conflict wi…"

"I cannot help but feel the suffering all around me, not only of humanity but of the whole of creation. I have never t…"

"The fact that in nature one creature may cause pain to another, and even deal with it instinctively in the most cruel…"

"...in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterio…"

"When in the spring the withered gray of the pastures gives place to green, this is due to the millions of young shoot…"

"One thing that specially saddened me was that the unfortunate animals had to suffer so much pain and misery. The sigh…"

"This dogma had first to be shattered before men could once more go out in quest of the historical Jesus, before they …"

"Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters."