Damage Quote by Albert Schweitzer

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.”

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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

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Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

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Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life…

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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

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“ Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now…

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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

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The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

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When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust…

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For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

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