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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Philosopher
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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
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For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
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In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.
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Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
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Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
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There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.
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We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.
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In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
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Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.
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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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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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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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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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