Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

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.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

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.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

lead in promotion of spirituality and compassion for humanity.

Andrea Brown

Many times I'm overwhelmed by the compassion of the city,

Andre Maurois

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Howard Rubenstein

Mr. Kushner said he has great sympathy and compassion for the governor, and his heart goes out to him.

Salman Rushdie

Meanwhile, it seems, the world is suffering from compassion fatigue,

Bhagavad Gita

My illusion is dispelled by Your profound words, that You spoke out of compassion towards me, about the supreme secret of the Self.

Meister Eckhart

No-one knows what the soul is.. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.

Robert Snell

My daughter said, 'we have to do something,' and she called the Red Cross, ... She has a lot of compassion and made me proud.

Aaron Eckhart

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

Dennis Hastert

We need to look at this in a comprehensive way, ... There is no magic wand to wave over this.

Doug Henning

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

Larry Coyer

I don't have a magic answer. If you play cornerback in this league, they're going to get you once in a while.

Ron Taffel

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Lilla Crawford

One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.

Lene Hau

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

Rupert Grint

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

Aaron Allston

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.