All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…

— Aristotle

“Firsyt of all, it must be realized that only God truly knows about Himself ( ya- rif aqq ma- rifatih) and fully comprehends the…

— al-Ghazâlî

“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as class rule…

— Hannah Arendt

“There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"; in fact, it is part and parcel…

— J.F.C. Fuller

“Resurrection. In the crude form in which it is preached to console the weak, it is alien to me. I have always understood Christ's…

— Boris Pasternak

“We heard of this woman who was out of control. We heard that she was led by her feelings. That her emotions were violent.…

— Susan Griffin

“If you think of our planet as a living, breathing organism, the forests are the lungs. They create a perfect balance to our own…

— Hope Bohanec

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely…

— Leo Tolstoy

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly…

— James Madison

“Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to…

— Thomas Hughes

I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months…

— Christiaan Barnard

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal…

— Christopher Fry

A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to reach God,…

— Sri Chinmoy