"Respect for the elderly is the first sign of civilization."

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, it is impossible for me to live, and I cannot know that; therefore I cannot live."

"The higher the spiritual development of a people, the more clearly it perceives its own defects."

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."

"The highest wisdom has but one science, the science of the whole, the science of understanding God, the understanding of creation and destiny."