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Man Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- 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…
- Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature…
- 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…
- All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
- The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
- 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…
- 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.
- When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately…
- It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
- Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent…
- 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.…
- Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . .…
- The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics…
- 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…
- A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
- The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all…
- No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will…
- A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if…
- 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…
- Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from…
- It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm…
- Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have…
- If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle