Albert Schweitzer Quotes
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Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay…
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The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.…
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to…
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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 that he gives to his…
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Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This fact can neither…
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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 ... olatent forces in nature…
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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 this…
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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,…
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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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Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
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Let your life be your argument.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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 from…
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