Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer, OMwas a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine and although that region had been annexed by the German Empire four years earlier, and remained a German possession until 1918, he considered himself French and wrote mostly in French...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth14 January 1875
CityKaysersberg, France
CountryGermany
enemy morality indifference
The great enemy of morality is indifference.
inspirational gratitude kindness
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
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In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.
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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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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
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The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
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The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
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By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
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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.