Albert Schweitzer Quotes - Page 9

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• Example is leadership.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Leadership, Learning, Growth

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• I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

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  Life, Ambition, Past

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• I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

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  Humanity, Stressed, Atheism

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• Preservation of life is the only true joy.

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  True Joy, Preservation Of Life, Life Is

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• We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

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  Pain, Privilege, Lord

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

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  Spiritual, Strong, Truth

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

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  Suffering And Death, Vegetarian, Vegan

  Albert Schweitzer, Steven E. G. Melamed (2003). “The African Sermons”, p.20, Syracuse University Press

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• The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.

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  Alive, Today, Dogma

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• Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

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  Life, Compassion, Profound

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

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• To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.

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  Gratitude, Mean, Feelings

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• There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb.

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  Jesus, Giving, Heaven

  Albert Schweitzer (2010). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• 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 they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

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  Life, Strength, Spiritual

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

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• The doctor of the future will be oneself.

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  Doctors, Oneself

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

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  Sad, Pain, Suicidal

  On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Ch. 5

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• Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, Profound

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• No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

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  Men, Giving, Needs

  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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• I decided that I would make my life my argument.

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  Argument, Decided

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• Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

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  Love, Doe, Behavior

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

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• No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

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  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

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  Life, Character, Adversity

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• If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

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  Compassion, Doe, Finding Peace

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• The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.

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  Men, Thinking, Animal

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• The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

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  Gratitude, Business, Believe

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• The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

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  Pain, Eye, Responsibility

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• Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

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  Inspirational Life, Integrity, Evil

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

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