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- The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.…
- The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his…
- Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this…
- Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm,…
- Let your life be your argument.
- 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…
- Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the…
- Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to…
- I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not…
- 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 from…
- What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be…
- The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole…
- To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a…
- The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life…
- Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in…
- A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
- Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
- Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and…
- Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
- The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our…
- Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living…
- The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life…
- At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
- The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which…
- Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so,…
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