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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

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
Physician
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Theologian
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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
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The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
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There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.
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If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.
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Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
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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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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
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Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.
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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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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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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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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.
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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.
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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
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No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
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