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• Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.

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  Men, Hands, Color

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• By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

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  Spiritual, Nature, Animal

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

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• Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

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  Departure, Littles, Way

  Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

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  Profound, Simplicity, Naive

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.

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  Perseverance, Kindness, Heart

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• 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 her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

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  Health, Witch Doctors, Knowing

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• Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.

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  Knowing, Littles, Truth Is

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• 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 thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.

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  Philosophical, Thinking, Animal

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• 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 that wants to live."

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  Life, Philosophy, Want

  "Kulturphilosophie"(Philosophy of Civilisation) by Albert Schweitzer, translated by C. T. Campion, Chapter 26, 1949.

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

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  Integrity, Angel, Men

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• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

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  Men, Mind Your Own Business, Devil

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• Thought is the strongest thing we have.

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  Belief, Strongest

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• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

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  Music, Laughter, Reality

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• The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

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  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

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• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

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  Fall, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

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  Leadership, Men, Able

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• 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, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

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  Race, Guilt, Done

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

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  Life, Evil, Giving

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• My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.

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  Nature, Animal, Life Is

  "Kulturphilosophie". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, 1923.

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• In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

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  Tombstone, Food, Writing

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• Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the
  thought of mankind as a whole.

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  Views, Understanding, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

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  Men, Animal, Thinking Man

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

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  Gone, World, Helping

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• By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Deep Life

  "The evolutions of ethics". The Atlantic Monthly, CCII, reprinted in "Unified English", Ardent Media, p. 247, November 1958.

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• Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

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  Soldier, Graves, Preacher

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