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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

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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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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 truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
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The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve
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At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
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I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.
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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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In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.
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We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
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The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
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If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.
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World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.
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Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
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Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
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