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Us Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly…
- The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our…
- The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which…
- We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Think with great gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
- I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not…
- Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
- ...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of…
- A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them,…
- I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an…
- 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…
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- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz