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.
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.Albert Schweitzer
Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have lost the sight of this ideal because we are solely occupied with thoughts of men instead of remembering th
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
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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