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Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
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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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
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Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
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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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Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
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The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
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At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
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We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.
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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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True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
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All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.
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When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
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The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
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Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
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Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
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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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Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
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