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“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.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“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.”
“And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves,but by the love for them that is in other people.”
“Without knowing why I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
“Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe - he has no other - and that instrument is reason”
“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.”
“Was it by reason that I attained the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason!”
“To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.”
“Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.”
“The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe”