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Each being is an integer in the stupendous scheme of consciousness.
Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899)
Imitation will not always be stronger than reason, but it is today.
Savage Survivals (1916)
Inconsideration by human beings toward the rest of sentients is an aspect of that vast unconsciousness which taught that blacks were made for whites, females for males, and barbarians" for Romans.
Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899)
Act toward others as you would act toward a part of your own self.
The Universal Kinship (1906)
Vacation days may be much more beautifully spent communing with the transcendent spirit of Nature than in the butchery and terrorisation of her simple-hearted children.
The New Ethics (1907)
No being will do his most luminous and exalted thinking with his stomach a morgue.
The New Ethics (1907)
The animal kingdom has been reared in a gory cradle.
Savage Survivals (1916)
The ability to weigh the stars is all right, but it is not more important than the disposition to be just.
Much of the vagueness of the human mind is due to the fact that the mind is largely composed of material derived second-hand from books. The ideas are not read.
Living beings who love themselves no more ardently than they love others are prodigies, and it will never be otherwise so long as beings are born as they are and live in like conditions.
Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899)
In the ideal state, man treats the races of beings affiliated with him, not as objects of pillage, but as beings with rights and feelings and capabilities of happiness and misery, like himself.
The New Ethics (1907)
Caprice is a hallucination. There is no caprice, only ignorance.
Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899)
There are not ten men on the continent of America at this moment who will not, two hundred years from now, be considered as 'back numbers.'
The New Ethics (1907)
The Great Law of Love—the abstaining from that which we do not like when done to ourselves—Reciprocity—is the only relation to exist among associated beings of any kind.
The New Ethics (1907)
In short, man, when he acts ideally, treats these beings at all times as associates, not as slaves or machines, as his best friends and most faithful and valuable allies.
The New Ethics (1907)
Wherever Buddhism prevails, there will be found in greater or less purity, as one of the cardinal principles of its founder, the doctrine of the sacredness of all Sentient Life.
The Universal Kinship (1906)
The philosophies of this world have all been framed by, and from the standpoint of, a single species, and they are still managed and maintained in the interests of this species.
The New Ethics (1907)
A being who can look without weeping on the heart-rending facts that fill the cities of our so-called civilisation has a psychology granitic enough to gaze unmoved on a hellful of roasting souls.
The New Ethics (1907)
The evolution of consciousness in its social and ethical aspects consists in the evolution of the ability to make real and vivid the phenomena that are more and more distant in both space and time.
The Universal Kinship (1906)
The inhabitants of the earth are bound to each other by the ties and obligations of a common kinship. Man is simply one of a series of sentients, differing in degree, but not in kind, from the beings below, above, and around him.
The New Ethics (1907)