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The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure
the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Let me give you a definition of ethics:
It is good to maintain and further life
it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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I can do no other than be reverent
before everything that is called life.
I can do no other than to have compassion
for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer
I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
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