The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
A man is truly ethical only when [...] he tears no leaf from a tree, plucks no flower, and takes care to crush no insects.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances.
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Ethics [...] are nothing but reverence for life.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
