"If there is anything I have learned about……" — Albert Schweitzer
"If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released."
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Albert Schweitzer
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298 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
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Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for…
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The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the…
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The…
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life…
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Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being…
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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command…
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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…
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Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life…
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One person can and does make a difference.
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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
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