Albert Schweitzer Quotes - Page 12

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• Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

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  Friendship, Religious, Dog

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• We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.

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  Creative, Spirit, Horror

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.

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  Prayer, Men, Battle

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• The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

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  Life, Ethics, Reverence

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.237, Henry Holt and Company

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• It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

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  Birthday, Truth, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.18, Open Road Media

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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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  Time, Truth, Special

  'Zwischen Wasser und Urwald' (On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, 1922) ch. 11

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• Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

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  Health, Doctors, Patient

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• The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

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  Devil, Quiet, Invention

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• I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.

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  People, Understanding, Important

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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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  Spiritual, Strong, Age

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

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  Inspirational, Sympathy, Men

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• Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

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  Jesus, Lying, Simple

  Albert Schweitzer (2012). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.399, Courier Corporation

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• Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

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  Men, Thinking, Evil

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• In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.

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  Struggle, Fate, Guilty

  Albert Schweitzer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. November 4, 1954.

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• We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

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  Kindness, Ignorance, Space

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

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  Men, Thinking, Halos

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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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  Change, Thinking, Years

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• The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

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  Teacher, Jesus, Believe

  "The Quest of the Historical Jesus". Book by Albert Schweitzer, transl. by W. Montgomery, 1906.

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• Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

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  Kindness, Relax, Prejudice

  Albert Schweitzer (1960). “My Childhood and Youth”

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• But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.

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  Our World, Years, Ideas

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• The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.

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  Inspiring, Future, Men

  "The decay and the restoration of civilization".

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• What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual
  its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.

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  Mean, Views, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity.

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  Flower, Home, Animal

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• Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

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  Life, Court, Appeals

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.

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  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Albert Schweitzer (1949). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, New York : H. Holt

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