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Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
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A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
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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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It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
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It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
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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 quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
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You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.
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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
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We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
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