“...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.”
“We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us”
“We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.”
“We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.”
“In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.”
“We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.”
“It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.”
“If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.”
“The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.”
