All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born. The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succeed, and with aching hearts, see only the good in him. There are two methods of human activity -- and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, there are two kinds of people. One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad. There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation. There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power. The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. |