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Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

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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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We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.
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Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.
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By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
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We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
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Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
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The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
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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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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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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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Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.
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You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.
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As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.
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Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
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Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
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The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
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All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.
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You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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