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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
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The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.
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Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
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We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
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The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life
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No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
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At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
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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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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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