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Albert Schweitzer
- The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- 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.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- Because I have confidence in the power of truths and of spirit, I believe in the future of mankind.- The Philosophy of Civilization.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life is the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms: Though shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flower, thoughtlessly stepping on a poor insect... Reverence for life comprises the whole ethic of love in its deepest and highest sense. It is the source of constant renewal for the individual and for mankind.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow human beings. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.... Albert Schweitzer {view}
- Today we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth are our neighbors... Albert Schweitzer {view}