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We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
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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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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
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Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
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The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
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What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.
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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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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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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
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Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
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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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We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
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The great enemy of morality is indifference.
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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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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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