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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
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If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
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Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.
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I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
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Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
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All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.
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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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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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The doctor of the future will be oneself.
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Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.
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Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
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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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