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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.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.
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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.
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Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.
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You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.
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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
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Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
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There is no higher religion than human service.
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It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.
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The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
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To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
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My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
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Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
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Preservation of life is the only true joy.
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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
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