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Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to 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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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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Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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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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Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.
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Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.
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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
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There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.
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Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.
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To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
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The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.
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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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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.
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Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
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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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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
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