| 40 Famous Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
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“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
Animals Quotes |
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“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
Ecology Quotes |
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“A good example has twice the value of good advice”
Example Quotes |
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“Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.”
Illness Quotes |
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“Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.”
Misery Quotes |
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“The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?”
Opinions Quotes |
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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.”
Optimism Quotes |
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“Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.”
Renunciation Quotes |
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“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
Solidarity Quotes |
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“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
Time Quotes |
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“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.”
Kindness Quotes |
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“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
Nature Quotes |
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“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats.”
Cats Quotes |
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“It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.”
Compassion Quotes |
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“As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.”
Mystery Quotes |
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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.”
Night Quotes |
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“From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.”
Simplicity Quotes |
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“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only
thing.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human
being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this
light.”
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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. -Albert Schweitzer.”
Ethics Quotes |
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“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Thanks to Ellen Fletcher -Albert Schweitzer.”
Inspiring Quotes |
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“The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. -Albert Schweitzer.”
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“The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.”
Man Quotes |
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“Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That 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.”
Morality Quotes |
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Albert Schweitzer Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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