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An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
Composer
Missionary
Music Historian
Musicologist
Organist
Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
Theologian
University Teacher
Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Ideas
Always
Stronger
Circumstances
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The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
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Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
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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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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
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Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
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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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There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.
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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
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It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
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Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
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To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
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Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.
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You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
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It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.
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Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own
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