Best quotes by Albert Schweitzer on Man
Checkout quotes by Albert Schweitzer on Man
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‟ Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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‟ Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
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‟ The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
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‟ 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 when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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‟ Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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‟ Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
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‟ 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.
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‟ Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
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‟ 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 anything that lives.
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‟ A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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‟ Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
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‟ Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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‟ 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 the next day.
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‟ If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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‟ As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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