German - Theologian | January 14, 1875 - September 4, 1965
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer
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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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We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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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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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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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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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.
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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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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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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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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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