Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.