All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.
Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.
I'm obsessed with packing in as much work as possible during each day, simply because there is only so much time you have in a lifetime. There is nothing better than to go home at night and know that you've done everything that you could do to accomplish your work
True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality. . . and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.
Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.
Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind.