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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
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Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.
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Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
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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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I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
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Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
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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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The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over they are united by a secret bond.
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A good example has twice the value of good advice
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
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You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
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That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
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