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41. “Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.”
― Albert Schweitzer
42. “The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.”
― Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus
43. “The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -Albert Schweitzer”
― Albert Schweitzer
44. “If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”
― Albert Schweitzer
45. “I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.”
― Albert Schweitzer
46. “When I look back upon my early days I am stirred by the thought of the number of people whom I have to thank for what they gave me or for what they were to me. At the same time I am haunted by an oppressive consciousness of the little gratitude I really showed them while I was young. How many of them have said farewell to life without having made clear to them what it meant to me to receive from them so much kindness or so much care! Many a time have I, with a feeling of shame, said quietly to myself over a grave the words which my mouth ought to have spoken to the departed, while he was still in the flesh.”
― Albert Schweitzer
47. “The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.”
― Albert Schweitzer
48. “Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.”
― Albert Schweitzer
49. “The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”
― Albert Schweitzer
50. “In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.”
― Albert Schweitzer
51. “Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.”
― Albert Schweitzer
52. “He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside,
He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.”
― Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus
53. “As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”
― Albert Schweitzer
54. “You must give 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. --”
― Albert Schweitzer
55. “Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”
― Albert Schweitzer
56. “Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.”
― Albert Schweitzer
57. “Die Liebe stirbt meistens and den kleinen Fehlern, die man am Anfang so entzückend findet.”
― Albert Schweitzer
58. “Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.”
― Albert Schweitzer
59. “But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.”
― Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought
60. “Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”
― Albert Schweitzer
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