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• The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

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  Sports, Animal, Hunting

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

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• My life is my argument.

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  Argument, Life Is

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• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

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  Music, Laughter, Reality

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• In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

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  Tombstone, Food, Writing

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• Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

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  Respect, Real, Personality

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

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• Thought is the strongest thing we have.

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  Belief, Strongest

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• The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.

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  Character, People, Secret

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• The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

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  Destiny, Men, Humans

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• Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.

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  Men, Hands, Color

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• The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

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  Health, Witch Doctors, Knowing

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• All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

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  Work, Done

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

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• I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.

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  Perseverance, Kindness, Heart

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

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  Profound, Devotion To God, Gita

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• Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

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  Motherhood, Principles, Fundamentals

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

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• To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time 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 as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.

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  Philosophical, Thinking, Animal

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• Constant Kindness can accomplish much.

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  Karma, Kindness, Compassion

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

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• From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

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  Profound, Simplicity, Naive

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

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  Life, Philosophy, Want

  "Kulturphilosophie"(Philosophy of Civilisation) by Albert Schweitzer, translated by C. T. Campion, Chapter 26, 1949.

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• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

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  Life, Evil, Giving

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• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

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  Laughter, Voice, Giving

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

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• The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

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  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

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• World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

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  Views, Vices, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• I decided that I would make my life my argument.

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  Argument, Decided

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• Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

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  Appreciation, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

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  Fall, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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

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