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«The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Compassion,
Ethics,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
attain, breadth, breadths, depth, embraces, ethics, in breadth, in secret, limit, take root
«It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
granted, harvest, sower, The Harvest
«Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
impart, imparting, imparts, on the road, precious, spiritual, spiritual being
«Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated. He must understand that all creation has its value... Life should only be negated wh»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
chain, consciousness, ethics, extend, extend to, negate, negated, negating, regain, regained, regaining, regains, separated
«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?»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, amusements, hunting, mistreatment, public opinion, tolerate
«It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
sympathy
«It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life in the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms : Thou shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flow»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
commandment, concerning, elementary, expressed, lightly, plucking, prohibition, thoughtlessly
«Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Ecology
| Keywords:
destroying, foresee, forestall
«The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Conscience,
Devil,
Evil
| Keywords:
The Quiet
«Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Revenge
| Keywords:
rolling, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stones, sinew, sinews, The Rolling Stones
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