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Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
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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More quotes by Albert Schweitzer
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.
Albert Schweitzer
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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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
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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, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Albert Schweitzer
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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I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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Do something good and someone might imitate it.
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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
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Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
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All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
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Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
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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.
Albert Schweitzer
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.
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The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
Albert Schweitzer
My life carries its own meaning in itself.
Albert Schweitzer
