Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

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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.

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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

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Example is leadership.

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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

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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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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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