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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

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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There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
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Love ... is a living reality.
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Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
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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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When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.
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It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
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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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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
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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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It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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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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We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
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An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.
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You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
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To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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