One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Quote by Albert Schweitzer

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it...

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it...

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in...

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in...

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but...

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but...

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill,...

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill,...

My life is my argument.

My life is my argument.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

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

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

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life...

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life...

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst...

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst...

From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a...

Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a...

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another...

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another...

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have...

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have...

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness....

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness....