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True Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
- 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…
- 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…
- Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in…
- Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
- 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…
- Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
- I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not…
- The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
- 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…
- The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
- Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is…
- 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…
- True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life…
- We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does…
- 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…
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- I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. — Aaliyah
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood