"Once a man recognizes himself as a..." - Quote by Albert Schweitzer
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.
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More on Ethics
“I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.”
“To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.”
“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”
More on Life
“Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.”
“I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.”
“The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.”