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Let your life be your argument.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.
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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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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.
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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 great enemy of morality is indifference.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
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Aim for service and success will follow!
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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.
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The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.
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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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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.
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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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Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.
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