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Albert Schweitzer Inspirational Quotes (313)

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We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
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The doctor of the future will be oneself.
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Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.
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Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
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A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
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If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
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What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.
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The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
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Kindness works simply and perseveringly it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
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I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
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We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
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Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.
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