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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Colorblind Everywhere Green Light Only Optimist Person Pessimist Red Sees Truly While Who Wise Wise Person

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Doing Happiness Key Key To Success Love Success Success Is Successful Will You

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Activity Directed Ethics His Inner Man Own Perfection Personality Secure

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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Another Being Blown Deepest Each Flame Goes Human Human Being Light Our Out Owes Rekindled Sometimes Thanks Those Us Who

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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Beings Ethics Evolution First First Step Human Human Beings Other Sense Solidarity Step

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Accomplish Causes Constant Evaporate Hostility Ice Kindness Makes Melt Mistrust Misunderstanding Much Sun

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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Else Ethics Life Nothing Reverence Than

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Animals Ethical Fellow Fellow Men He Help Him Himself His Life Man Men Need Only Plants Plants And Animals Sacred

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Animal Behaves Clever Imbecile Like Man Who

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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Creation Devils Even Hardly His Man Own Recognize

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Theologian

Born: January 14th, 1875

Died: September 4th, 1965

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