Quotes about Unity

To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that's what I call success.

The conventionality of the tribe is far more important than the happiness of the individual. In fact, the happiness of the individual ideally should rest in perpetrating the conventionality of the tribe.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Love breaks the hold of individualism; it builds new communities out of the ashes of broken and fragmented relationships.

Side by side is most suitable for helping.

Imagine how aloneness could gradually be banished.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

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

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

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.