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Best Man Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
- Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
- A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring…
- The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
- A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again…
- A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and…
- Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
- The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith…
- Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some…
- Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From…
- It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize…
- It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never…
- The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
- A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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