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Only 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.…
- Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature…
- 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,…
- 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…
- In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an…
- Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one…
- A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
- Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
- 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 . .…
- Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
- It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.
- It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my…
- It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience…
- 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…
- The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
- Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
- Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.
- ...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of…
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