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Human Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of…
- The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
- The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
- We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly…
- To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale.…
- To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than…
- Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up…
- I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not…
- Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a…
- In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We…
- The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
- Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is…
- By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual…
- Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But…
- Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled…
- Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow human beings. -…
- 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,…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle