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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
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There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.
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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
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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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In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.
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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
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Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
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The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.
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Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.
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