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• I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

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  Intellectual, Found, Difficult

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• It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

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  Moral, Incredibles, Should

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

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  Heart, Soul, Matter

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.125, Ardent Media

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• For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

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  Heart, Animal, Compassion

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• The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

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  Loyalty, Peace, Rhyming

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

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  Fate, Animal, Vegetarianism

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

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  Faith, Rays, Needs

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Animal protection is education to the humanity.

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  Ocean, Marine, Animal

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• Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

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  Love, Faithful, Being Faithful

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• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

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  Time, Truth, Integrity

  Zwischen Wasser und Urwald (On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, 1922) ch. 11

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• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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  Love, Life, Peace

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1923.

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• You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.

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  Sleep, Loss, Zest

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.80, Ardent Media

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• God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

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  Happiness, Gratitude, Thank God

  "Reverence for Life".

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• 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 human.

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  Sympathy, Animal, Voice

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• I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

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  Compassion, Foundation, Reverence For Life

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• Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.

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  Fiber, Facts, Bears

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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• Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

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  Health, Doctors, Wellness

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• 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 life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

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  Wisdom, Knowledge, Decision

  "The Spiritual Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer (p. 102), 1947.

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• 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. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.

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  Wise, Time, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2010). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.401, Lulu.com

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• 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 among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.

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  Independent, Men, Organization

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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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  Life, Death, Animal

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

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  Motto, Ask Me, Asks

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

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  Men, Perfection, Personality

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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  Character, Animal, Men

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