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From Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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.…
- In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an…
- The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
- 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…
- When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the…
- 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 naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
- Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent…
- Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so,…
- 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…
- To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale.…
- I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.
- Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . .…
- Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has…
- All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence…
- To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than…
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