Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror...

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.