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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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 gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
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Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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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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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
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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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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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The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.
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Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
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Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.
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Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.
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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
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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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It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
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It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.
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An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.
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We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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