Albert Schweitzer Quotes - Page 10

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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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  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

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  Sacrifice, Being Sad, Humanity

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• The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.

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  Men, Thinking, Animal

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• The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

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  Gratitude, Business, Believe

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• Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

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  Love, Doe, Behavior

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

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  Mystery, Spiritual Life, Knows

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.

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  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

  Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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• The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.

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  Pain, Mean, Secret

  Albert Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities (1998). “The Primeval Forest”, p.128, JHU Press

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• The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

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  Pain, Eye, Responsibility

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• Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

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  Truth, Future, Spirit

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.245, Henry Holt and Company

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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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  Heart, Men, Compassion

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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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  Gratitude, Science, Thoughtful

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

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  Heart, Law, Principles

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• All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

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  Compassion, People, Spirit

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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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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  Church Service, Play, Honor

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• I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.

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  Jesus, Good Life, Lying

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• There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

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  Joy, Exaltation, Events

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

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  Life, Happiness, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

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  Memories, Men, Animal

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• We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

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  Brother, Responsibility, Thinking

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

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  Life, Men, Thinking

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

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  Terminal

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.182, Oxford University Press

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• We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

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  Imperfect World, Saving, Helping

  Albert Schweitzer, Steven E. G. Melamed (2003). “The African Sermons”, p.20, Syracuse University Press

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• Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

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  Humanity, Pieces, May

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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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  Learning, Responsibility, Exercise

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