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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

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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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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

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One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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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

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Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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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. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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