Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
Albert Schweitzer Quotations
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Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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.
Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
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.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others it's the only thing.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.