Albert Schweitzer quotes - page 4

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. (Albert Schweitzer)
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
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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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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. (Albert Schweitzer)
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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The doctor of the future will be oneself.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
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You dont live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.
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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. (Albert Schweitzer)
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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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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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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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
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