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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered 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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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
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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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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
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No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
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Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
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Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
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Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.
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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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Aim for service and success will follow!
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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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I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
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You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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