Character Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

17 Character quotes by Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer offers a measured, almost reverent view of character across seventeen statements. His reflections echo a lifetime of service, inviting readers to consider integrity as a lived practice rather than a distant ideal.

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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

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The great enemy of morality is indifference.

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

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

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To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may…

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the…

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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…

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You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as…

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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…

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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…

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it…

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Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists…

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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…

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Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and…

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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…

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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…

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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

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

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Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

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Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life…

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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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

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“ Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now…

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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

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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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When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust…

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For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

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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…

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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…

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Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

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