Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

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Humanism, peace, friendship are the supreme commandments of our age. All true writers must enclose in their work these higher values ​​of human consciousness.

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The purpose of human life is service, compassion and the inclination to help people.

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Usually what passes for optimism is no more than the natural ability to see things rosy.

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He who exhorts to kindness must not rely on people to remove boulders from his path, but is obliged to accept his fate with humility, even when someone puts extra boulders in front of him.

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Work is valuable only when one works with faith.

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Civilization is a great idea, so someone has to start making it happen.

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Man masters nature, but he has not yet learned to master himself.

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Man can be called moral only if life is so sacred to him that he values ​​the life of plants and animals as that of his neighbor, and if he is willing to devote himself to helping all sentient beings who need help .

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Humanity has always needed moral ideals that helped it find the right path and use its forces in the most effective way.

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The more deeply we look into nature, the more we understand that it is full of life, and the more thoroughly we learn that all life is a mystery and that we are intimately connected with all the phenomena of life in nature.

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To learn to pray, we must learn, first of all, to give thanks.

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Ethics is an unlimited responsibility for all living beings.

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Being ethical is more than being altruistic!

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I do not know what your fate will be, but one thing I know for sure: truly happy will be those who sought and found a way to serve people.

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True ethics begins where words cease to be used

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We must all have an unusual duty: for life to pay with life.

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Any action that goes against our inner "I" is a wound we inflict on our own soul.

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Only in love are we able to reach communion with God.

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Love cannot be limited to a system of rules and regulations: commands, in love, are absolute.

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Truth can only be truthful when it has a thought behind it.

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A fulfilled desire often brings disappointment, because only an expected joy is a true joy

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The medicine man is successful for the same reason most of us are successful.

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Knowledge means nothing, and deeds can bear fruit and bring about change only when they are stimulated by sacrifice.

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If you live a shallow life, your soul suffers.

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The only solution for one to escape from a miserable existence is to be worthy of another person's trust.

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Good means preserving life, promoting life, evil means destroying life, harming life.

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For the man who has passed the age of sixty, I have a recipe: to work hard and, again, work hard!

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My knowledge is pessimistic and my belief is optimistic.

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We must become gentle ploughmen, but before we begin the work we must have hope.

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We are born from other people's lives. And we have the ability to call other lives to life.

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The fate of all truth is to be first ridiculed and then recognized.

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Indifference has always been the greatest enemy of morality.

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Consistent kindness can work wonders. Just as the sun can melt ice, so kindness drives away misunderstanding, mistrust and enmity.

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Real optimism...consists of aspiring to a meaningful ideal...

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He who considers himself a Christian just because he goes to church is wrong.

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Not a ray of sunshine is wasted, but the greenery it awakens from sleep needs time to germinate, and the sower will not always reap.

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There is no greater religion than the service of humanity. The highest credo is work for the common good.

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There is no specific time for truth. The hour of truth - now and always.

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It is not out of kindness to another that I am gentle, peaceful, patient and kind, I am so because this behavior gives me deep self-affirmation.

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There are no action heroes, only heroes of abdication and suffering.

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There are many of us, but each of us dies of loneliness.

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We must rise to the spirituality of ethics and to the ethics of spirituality.

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You don't have to be an angel to become a saint.

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Always looking for a way to do good.

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Personal parable is not the main way to influence other people. This is simply the only way.

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All humans have the capacity for compassion and therefore the spirit of humanity will continue to evolve.

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At the age of twenty, each of us has the face given by God; at forty, the face given by life, at sixty, the face we deserve.

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Abstraction is the death of ethics, because ethics is a living attitude towards life.

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Happiness is nothing but good health and bad memory.

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Revenge (...) is like a stone which, after a man has bitterly rolled it to the top of a mountain, comes back with greater violence and breaks the bones that his muscles set in motion.

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The power that knows only rebellion is exhausted.

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He who is determined to do good deeds cannot expect people to remove obstacles from his path. In fact, he has to put up with new ones being rolled in front of him.

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The truth is not bound by a date. Always timely, especially when it seems untimely.

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Each of us must come to terms with the idea of ​​death if we truly want to become good. We don't need to think about it every day or every hour. But whenever we reach a point on the road of life where the world around us becomes dim and the end of the road is clearly revealed in the distance, let us not close our eyes. Let's stop for a moment, look into the distance, then move on. When we think about death in this way, we learn to love life. If we have made friends with death, we will see each week, each day as a gift. Only if we are able to - step by step - accept life as it is, then it becomes truly valuable for us.

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You have to make time for your fellow human beings, do something for others, even if it's something small - something for which you don't get paid, just the rewarding feeling of being able to do it.

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I don't know what your fate is, but I do know one thing: only those who have sought and found how to serve others will be truly happy.

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Just as a tree bears the same fruit every year, and yet it is always new, in the same way thoughts of lasting value must be constantly recreated.

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Anyone who regards the life of any living creature as valueless faces the danger that sooner or later he will also value human life.

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If we want to influence others, setting an example is not only the most important thing, but the only thing that can be done.

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The native is not lazy, but a free person. That is why he is never more than a casual worker.

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Pain is a tyrant worse than death.

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If we wrote down the behavior and actions of all of us, what kind of book would it be? Wouldn't there be pages in it that would have to be flipped through in a hurry?

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Honesty is the basis of spiritual life.

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Modern man has truly lost his confidence. Behind his confident demeanor lies a mental restlessness. Despite his technical skills and financial power, he is becoming more and more mentally stunted because he does not use his thinking ability.

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The condition of all true culture is the mutual affirmation of life and morality.

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Every new truth means profit.

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Ideas are thoughts. As long as they are only thoughts, the power inherent in them is ineffective, no matter how great enthusiasm, no matter how firm conviction gave birth to them. Their power becomes effective only when the character of a true person is attached to them.

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What you can do is a drop in the ocean, but it gives your life meaning.

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Your most beautiful monument is in the hearts of your fellow human beings.

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The big secret: to go through life without getting worn out. This can be done by a person who does not take people and facts into account, but projects all his experiences onto himself and searches for the ultimate cause of things within himself.

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Correctly interpreted science cures man of his pride, because it shows his limits.

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There are times when our own light goes out and it takes a spark from another person to rekindle it. We all have good reason to think with deep gratitude for those who have kindled the flame within us.

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You don't have to live alone in the world, your brother is there.

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Above all spiritual and intellectual things, above philosophy and theology, one's willingness to help another person stands, and the task is that one should be a brother to another!

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Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which a person stops living in the world and begins to devote himself with respect to his own life in order to raise it to its true value.

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By respecting life, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the world.

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A thinking person feels the need to pay the same respect to every will to live outside of him as to his own.

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A person is only moral if he considers life itself as sacred, his plants and animals as well as his own, and tries to provide help to all life in need as much as possible.

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Throughout his life, man today is exposed to influences that shake his confidence in his own thinking. The encouragement to spiritual dependence to which you must submit is manifested in everything you hear or read. (...) Where the conviction that a person reaches the truth through independent thinking ceases, skepticism creeps in.

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A worldview proves to be true only if it transforms our relationship to existence and the world into one that is guided by active morality and shapes us into deeper people.

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When people no longer take their existence for granted, but see its mysticism, that's when the thought begins.

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Renunciation of thinking is the bankruptcy of the spirit.

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We are together a lot, yet social loneliness destroys us.

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Being human is hard, but being different is not worth it.

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You only grow old when you stop soaring and let pessimism and cynicism freeze your heart.

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The measure of youth is not age, but the state of the spirit and soul: the will and imagination, the intensity of emotions, the victory of cheerfulness and the desire for adventure over laziness.

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The future of the world does not depend on how much we understand, but on how much we respect life.

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The future will not make up for what you fail to do in the present.