Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Integrity
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Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
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