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You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude, Destiny, Law

But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record.

Albert Schweitzer
Jesus, Honesty, Pain

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer
Men, Thinking, Bears

I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.

Albert Schweitzer
Horse, Pain, Animal

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

Albert Schweitzer
Views, Profound, World
Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord.

Albert Schweitzer
Jesus, Father, Teaching

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.

Albert Schweitzer
Feelings, Meat, Vegetarian

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Albert Schweitzer
Respect, Responsibility, Vegetarianism
"Civilization and Ethics".

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

Albert Schweitzer
Jesus, Lying, Simple
Albert Schweitzer (2012). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.399, Courier Corporation

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Albert Schweitzer
Civilization, Movement, Ethical

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Art, Business

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Albert Schweitzer
Brother, True Friend, Men

The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.

Albert Schweitzer
Responsibility, Animal, Opportunity
"Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics, 1923.

My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.

Albert Schweitzer
Animal, Views, Way

What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.

Albert Schweitzer
Jesus, Mistake, Nineteen
"Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography". Book by Albert Schweitzer. As translated by C. T. Campion, Epilogue, p. 241, 1933.

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Albert Schweitzer
Cities, Skepticism, Built
Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

Albert Schweitzer
Views, Optimism, World
Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

Albert Schweitzer
Spiritual, Thinking, Self
"Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer, Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics, Preface, 1949.

We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.

Albert Schweitzer
Jesus, Heart, Animal

My life carries its own meaning in itself.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Meaning Of Life, Carrie
Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

Albert Schweitzer
Inspirational, Art, Expression
Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.

Albert Schweitzer
Mean, Views, World
Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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