Albert Schweitzer Quotes - Page 8

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• Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Cat, Animal

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• It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

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  Health, Doctors, Medicine

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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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• Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

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  Inspirational Love, Believe, Thinking

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• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

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  Strong, Philosophical, Animal

  "Memoirs of Childhood and Youth". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1924.

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• Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.

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  Life, Spiritual, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

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  Guidance, Difficult, Difficult Things

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• What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

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  War, Realization, Matter

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• If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

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  Compassion, Doe, Finding Peace

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• Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

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  Beautiful, Tree, World

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

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• Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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  Reverence For Life, Ethics, Morality

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

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• Example is leadership.

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  Leadership, Learning, Growth

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• The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

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  Earth, Spirit, Proof

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

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  Spiritual, Religious, Fire

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• You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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  Brother, Helping Others, Volunteer

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• Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

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  Animal, Able, Quiet

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• Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

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  Truly Happy, Persons, Has Beens

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• Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

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  Life, Compassion, Profound

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

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• Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

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  Mean, Reality, Europe

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• Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

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  Pain, Lying, Hard Times

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.

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  Love, Loneliness, Often Is

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• Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest.

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  Jesus, Animal, Vegetarianism

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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 prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

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  Integrity, Character, Independent

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Soul

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

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  Spiritual, Ethical, Existence

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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