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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.
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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I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.
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I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.
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The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
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There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.
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We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
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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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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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