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It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

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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 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 awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
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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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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.
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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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The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
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That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
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