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• I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Doctors, Years, Giving

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

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• Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

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  Family, Long Distance Relationship, Witty

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.3, Open Road Media

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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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  Animal, Past, Wish

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• Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This fact can neither be shaken nor confirmed by any historical discovery. It is the solid foundation of Christianity.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Albert Schweitzer (2005). “Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings”

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• Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

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  Mean, World, Affirmation

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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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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  Damage Is Done, Giving, Definitions

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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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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  Overcoming, Separation, Natural

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• The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.

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  Nature, Pain, Fate

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• If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

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  Life, Study, Profundity

  Albert Schweitzer (2005). “Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings”

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• Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

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  Achievement, Reverence For Life, Direct

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.109, Oxford University Press

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• It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

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  Pain, Lying, World

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.244, Henry Holt and Company

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• Only through love can we obtain communion with God.

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  Spirituality, Communion, Communion With God

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• We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

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  Gratitude, Sunshine, Expression

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.

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  Attitude, Tragedy, World

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

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• We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

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  Animal, Compassion, Circles

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• We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

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  Men, United

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• ...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.

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  Dark, America, People

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• The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

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  Jesus, Usual, Ordinary

  "Reverence for Life".

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• We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

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  May, Made, Wells

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• Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

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  Life, Men, Ethics

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

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  Spiritual, Stronger, Reverence For Life

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

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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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  Life, Pain, Long

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• Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).

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  Life, Death, Sunset

  "Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook".

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• Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

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  Motivational, Coaching, Looks

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• Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

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  Darkness, Gathering, World

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