Albert Schweitzer Quotes (123 Quotes)
- My life is my argument.
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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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- I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
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- A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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- Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
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- Because I have confidence in the power of truths and of spirit, I believe in the future of mankind.- The Philosophy of Civilization.
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- Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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- The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
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- Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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- Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
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- Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
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- 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. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
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- Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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- Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.
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- It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
(Albert Schweitzer)
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