When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Interpretation
Our understanding is limited compared to what we don't know.
The quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer emphasizes the vastness of the unknown in relation to what we actually know. It suggests that while we may feel knowledgeable, it is just a small portion when compared to the countless mysteries and information that exist beyond our grasp, highlighting the importance of humility and continuous learning.
In practice
This quote can inspire students to appreciate the limits of their knowledge during a classroom discussion.
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.
Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.
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