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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
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Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
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Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
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Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.
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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 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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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
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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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Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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Only through love can we obtain communion with God.
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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
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Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
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Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
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The great enemy of morality is indifference.
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