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Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
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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Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).
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As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
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Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
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We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.
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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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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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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
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There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
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It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.
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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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Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.
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Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
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No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
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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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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
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