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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Philosopher
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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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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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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
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In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.
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We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.
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I must forgive without noise or fuss.
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
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Preservation of life is the only true joy.
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
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Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.
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All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
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We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.
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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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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
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We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
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To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.
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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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