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Albert Schweitzer was a renowned Alsatian-German physician, theologian, philosopher, and humanitarian. His work in both music and medicine, especially his founding of a hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, earned him international acclaim. He devoted his life to service and became a symbol of ethical responsibility and compassion. Here are 210 of his quotes:

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live. (Albert Schweitzer)
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence. View quote
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What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters. View quote
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Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience. View quote
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise. View quote
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What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shake us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place. View quote
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Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole. View quote
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O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace. View quote
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Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own. (Albert Schweitzer)
It is the fate of 'little faiths' of truth that they, true followers of Peter, whether they be Roman or the Protestant observance, cry out and sink in the sea of ideas, where the followers of Paul, believing in the Spirit, walk secure and undismayed. View quote
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Thus each successive epoch of theology found its own thoughts in Jesus; that was, indeed, the only way in which it could make Him live. But it was not only each epoch that found its reflection in Jesus; each individual created Him in accordance with his own character. There is no historical task which so reveals a man's true self as the writing of a Life of Jesus. View quote
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Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON. View quote
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The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind. View quote
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. View quote
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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. View quote
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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. View quote
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. View quote
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. View quote
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We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. (Albert Schweitzer)
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. View quote
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My life is my argument. View quote
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Albert Schweitzer

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Occupation: French Physician
Born: January 14, 1875
Died: September 4, 1965
Quotes count: 210
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