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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.
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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 purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
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Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.
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A good example has twice the value of good advice
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We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
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There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.
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True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
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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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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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The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.
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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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I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
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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.
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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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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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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
Albert Schweitzer
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
Albert Schweitzer
