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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.
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Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
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The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
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Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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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.'
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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.
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Preservation of life is the only true joy.
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I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
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You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
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Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.
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The doctor of the future will be oneself.
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Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
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Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
Albert Schweitzer
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
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