Albert Schweitzer Quotes - Page 4

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• For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

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  Heart, Animal, Compassion

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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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  Cheating, Taken, Sunday

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• Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

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  Love, Faithful, Being Faithful

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• The great enemy of morality is indifference.

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  Enemy, Morality, Indifference

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• I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

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  Compassion, Foundation, Reverence For Life

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• The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

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  Civilization, Balance, Disturbed

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

  "Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century".

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• Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

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  Health, Doctors, Wellness

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• I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

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  Intellectual, Found, Difficult

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• In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.

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  Peace, Heart, Men

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• The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

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  Evil

  Source: acedmagazine.com

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• The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

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  Wisdom, Knowledge, Decision

  "The Spiritual Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer (p. 102), 1947.

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• Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

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  Real, Profound, Mind

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• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

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  Men, Perfection, Personality

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

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  Animal, Pet, Suffering

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• Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.

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  Knowing, Littles, Truth Is

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• Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

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  Heart, Soul, Matter

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.125, Ardent Media

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• When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

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  Heart, Hands, Light

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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  Character, Animal, Men

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• 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.

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  Kindness, Farewell, Humble

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

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• Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.

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  Fiber, Facts, Bears

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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• No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

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  Faith, Rays, Needs

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Bankruptcy

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Animal protection is education to the humanity.

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  Ocean, Marine, Animal

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