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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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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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From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
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At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
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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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Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.
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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
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Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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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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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
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Thought is the strongest thing we have.
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You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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My life is my argument.
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We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.
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For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.
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