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You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

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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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
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World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
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The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.
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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
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My life carries its own meaning in itself.
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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 only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
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The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).
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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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Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.
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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 thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
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Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
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