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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 (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace (Albert Schweitzer 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 Quotes)
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will to live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
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 (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
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 (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Truth has no time of its own. Its hour is now - always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of their way, but must accept their lot calmly, even if people roll a few stones upon it (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
The first step in the evolution of ethics is an enlargement of the sense of solidarity with other human beings (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
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 Quotes)
No ray of sunshine is ever lost but the green that it awakens takes time to sprout, and it is not always given the sower to see the harvest (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe (Albert Schweitzer Quotes)
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 Quotes)