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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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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
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Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.
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Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
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Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
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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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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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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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Only through love can we obtain communion with God.
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
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All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
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An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.
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It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.
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The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
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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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When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.
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The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
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As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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