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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
Composer
Missionary
Music Historian
Musicologist
Organist
Philosopher
Physician
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Theologian
University Teacher
Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Service
Follow
Success

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Kindness works simply and perseveringly it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
Albert Schweitzer
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You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.
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I decided that I would make my life my argument.
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We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.
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The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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I must forgive without noise or fuss.
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Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.
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Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
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Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
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We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
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In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
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My life is my argument.
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It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.
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Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.
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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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