Albert Schweitzer Quotes on Man (25 Quotes)

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

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

Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have lost the sight of this ideal because we are solely occupied with thoughts of men instead of remembering th

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.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated. He must understand that all creation has its value... Life should only be negated wh

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.

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.

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

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

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.

It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

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

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

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

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.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

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.

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 time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

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 this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.