Albert Schweitzer Short Quotes

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True ethics begin where the use of language ceases.

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World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

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Man is a clever animal, who behaves like an imbecile.

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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

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You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.

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Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

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The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

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Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

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Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

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The African is my brother – but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

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There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

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Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

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The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

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A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

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All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

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