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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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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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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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