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• By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Deep Life

  "The evolutions of ethics". The Atlantic Monthly, CCII, reprinted in "Unified English", Ardent Media, p. 247, November 1958.

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• A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

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  Integrity, Angel, Men

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• Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the
  thought of mankind as a whole.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Views, Understanding, World

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

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• A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Leadership, Men, Able

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Departure, Littles, Way

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

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  Want, Midst

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

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  Love, Essence, Reverence For Life

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

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  Mind, Born, Institutions

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

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• Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Thinking, Compassion

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Business, Apology

  "A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer".

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• Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

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  Nature, Heart, Men

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• Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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  Humanity, May, Ifs

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Preservation of life is the only true joy.

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  True Joy, Preservation Of Life, Life Is

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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

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  Men, Animal, Thinking Man

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Men, Honor

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• Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Doctors, Physicians, Patient

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• A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Race, Guilt, Done

  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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• My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Animal, Life Is

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, 1923.

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• Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.

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  Believe, Optimistic, Reality

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

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  Lamps, Burning, Rejoice

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

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  Religious, Jesus, Twilight

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• All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

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  Kindness, Heart, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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• It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.

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  Love, Foundation, Knowledge Of God

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

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  Autumn, Fields, Lips

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

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