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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.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Misery,
Pain
| Keywords:
Call for help, diminishing, misery, spared
«Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
orphan, orphaned, Sunday, taken
«Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Evil,
Life,
Morality,
Principles
| Keywords:
affords, assisted, assisting, assists, enhancing, fundamental, fundamental principle, hinder, hindered, Maintaining, namely, reverence
«We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
permit, silenced, sympathy, The Voice
«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»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
hoping, optimistic, pessimistic
«A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.»
«Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind,
Problems
| Keywords:
attributing, environment, In the Realm, morals, realm
«I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you; but one thing I know - the only ones among you who will be really happy will be those who have sought and found the way to serve»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Destiny
| Keywords:
sought, The Only Ones
«Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the wil»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
affirm, affirmation, affirmations, Affirmed, affirming, ceases, deepen, deepening, deepens, devote, exalt, exalting, exalts, inward, raise, reverence, reverenced, reverences, The Spiritual, True Value
«The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Knowledge,
Progress
| Keywords:
allows, describe, detail, enabling, evolution, grasp, in detail, more and more, world view
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