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Albert Schweitzer

I have given up the ambition ...

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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Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose ...

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

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Albert Schweitzer

Ethics, too, are nothing but ...

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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Albert Schweitzer

The great fault of all ethics...

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.

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Albert Schweitzer

A thinking man feels compelle...

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

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Albert Schweitzer

The stronger the reverence fo...

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

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Albert Schweitzer

I do not believe that we can ...

I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.

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Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who proposes to do goo...

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.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes
Albert Schweitzer

Man's ethics must not end wit...

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

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Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself...

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

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Albert Schweitzer

Truth has not special time of...

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

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Albert Schweitzer

Living truth is that alone wh...

Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.

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Albert Schweitzer

Not less strong than the will...

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

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Albert Schweitzer

The quiet conscience is an in...

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

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Albert Schweitzer

O heavenly Father, protect an...

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

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Albert Schweitzer

Today it is considered as exa...

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

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Albert Schweitzer

Ethics has not only to do wit...

Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest.

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Albert Schweitzer

I believe that I possess this...

I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.

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Albert Schweitzer

I always think that we live, ...

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

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Albert Schweitzer

If you are called upon to pla...

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

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