Albert Schweitzer
German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician
Lived from: 1875 - 1965
Category: Music | Theologians and clergy | Philosophers | Scientists Country: 
Germany
Born: 14 january 1875 Died: 4 september 1965
Quotes 21 till 40 of 62.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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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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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.''
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
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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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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
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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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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 a man 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 a 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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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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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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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 we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
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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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