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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
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Organist
Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
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The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.
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In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.
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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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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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Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
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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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Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
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World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
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Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
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Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
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The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.
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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.
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Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
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Do something good and someone might imitate it.
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Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
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In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
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