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Own Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
- To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a…
- Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . .…
- Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual…
- The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or…
- Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up…
- A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
- If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.
- Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
- It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm…
- Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
- Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
- At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep…
- Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
- Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some…
- It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize…
- He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not.…
- You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right…
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