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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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• 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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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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  Life, Death, Animal

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.67, 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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• He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.

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  Wise, Time, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2010). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.401, Lulu.com

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• Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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  Eye, Men, Humanity

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• The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

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  Gone, World, Helping

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• Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.

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  Example, May

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• Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

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  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  "A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer".

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• Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

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  Gratitude, Home, Sacrifice

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• The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

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  People, Today, Way

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

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• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

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  Loyalty, Peace, Rhyming

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

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• The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

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  Thinking, Age, Spirit

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• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

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  Men, Mind Your Own Business, Devil

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• 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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  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

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  Moral, Incredibles, Should

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• By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

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  Spiritual, Nature, Animal

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

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• Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

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  Serious Illness, Long, Host

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• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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  Love, Life, Peace

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1923.

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• I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.

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  What Matters, Temptation, Healthy

  "Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

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• You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

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  Motto, Ask Me, Asks

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• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.

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  Independent, Men, Organization

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• It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

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  Men, Self, Noble

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• For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

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  Men, Problem, Great Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2012). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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