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Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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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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Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
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Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.
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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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Only through love can we obtain communion with God.
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
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It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
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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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I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
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The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.
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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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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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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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Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
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Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).
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Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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