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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
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The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
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The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.
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Kindness works simply and perseveringly it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
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That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
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Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
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Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
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Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
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Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
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In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.
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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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All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.
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A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
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O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
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