“Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.”

“The ethics of reverence for life makes no distinction between higher and lower, more precious and less precious lives. It has good reasons for this omission. For what are we doing, when we establish hard and fast gradations in value between living organisms, but judging them in relation to ourselves, by whether they seem to stand closer to us or farther from us. This is a wholly subjective standard. How can we know what importance other living organisms have in themselves and in terms of the universe?”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.”

“I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.”

“As we understand life in ourselves, we want to understand life in the universe. in order to enter into harmony with it.”

“As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.”