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.

Quote by Albert Schweitzer

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own...

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own...

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill,...

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill,...

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will...

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will...

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not...

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not...

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never...

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never...

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees...

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I...

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I...

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and...

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and...

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each...

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each...

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only...

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only...

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of...

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of...

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each...

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each...

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in...

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in...

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying...

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying...

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.