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We cannot abdicate our consci...

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

The awareness that we are all...

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

The elemental fact, present i...

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

The great enemy of morality i...

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

No one can give a definition ...

No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

Any religion or philosophy wh...

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

Anyone who has accustomed him...

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.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

We must fight against the spi...

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

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You must not expect anything ...

You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

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Open your eyes and look for s...

Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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To affirm life is to deepen, ...

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.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

In case my life should end wi...

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.'

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

When people have light in the...

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

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The the question whether I am...

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

Very little of the great crue...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

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The most difficult thing I ha...

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

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

Those who experiment on anima...

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

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

True philosophy must start fr...

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."

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

Constant Kindness can accompl...

Constant Kindness can accomplish much.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

For us the great men are not ...

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer 437 quotes

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