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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Lamps, Burning, Rejoice

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• 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 desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

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  Life, Thinking, Compassion

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• I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

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  Want, Midst

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

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  Nature, Heart, Men

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

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  Inspirational, Business, Apology

  "A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer".

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• Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

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  Animal, Able, Quiet

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• Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

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  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  "A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer".

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

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  Brother, Helping Others, Volunteer

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• I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.

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  What Matters, Temptation, Healthy

  "Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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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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  Kindness, Heart, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

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  Doctors, Physicians, Patient

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• Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

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  Mind, Born, Institutions

  Albert Schweitzer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. November 4, 1954.

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• The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

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  Guidance, Difficult, Difficult Things

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• Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.

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  Example, May

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• Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

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  Appreciation, Responsibility, Helping Others

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

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  Humanity, May, Ifs

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

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  Beautiful, Tree, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

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

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  Respect, Real, Personality

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.

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  Believe, Optimistic, Reality

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

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  Autumn, Fields, Lips

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

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  Life, Cat, Animal

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• We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

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  Darkness, Together, Lightning

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

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• What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

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  Love, Essence, Reverence For Life

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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