Albert Schweitzer Quotes - Famous Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
Born: 1875-01-14
Died: 1965-09-04
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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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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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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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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.
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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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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling.
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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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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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
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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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Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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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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Example is leadership.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others it's the only thing.
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Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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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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It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.
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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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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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The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
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The deeper we look into nature the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret, and we are all united to all this life.
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.
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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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You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
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