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"I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others."
"The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust."
"In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'"
"It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth."
"Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force."
"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."
"Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them."
"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is."
"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
"The doctor of the future will be oneself."
"If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty."
"I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived."
"We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government."
"For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them."
"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 will."
"Animal protection is education to the humanity."
"As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious."
"Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy."
"The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves."
"All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind."