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Albert Schweitzer


German
January 14, 1875
Theologian
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.


Albert Schweitzer
Tags: Man Does Order
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.


Albert Schweitzer
Tags: You Think Which
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.


Albert Schweitzer
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.


Albert Schweitzer
Tags: Own Man His
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.


Albert Schweitzer
Tags: Life Will He
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert Schweitzer
Tags: Get Know Everyone
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Albert Schweitzer
Tags: Really Love Which
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.
Albert Schweitzer
Tags: Man Come True
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
Tags: Only He Man
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
Albert Schweitzer
Tags: Good Life World
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.
Albert Schweitzer
Tags: Life Which Only
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
Albert Schweitzer
Tags: You Always Never
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer
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.
Albert Schweitzer