Quote by Albert Schweitzer
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as lon

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. – Albert Schweitzer

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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. – Albert Schweitzer

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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. – Albert Schweitzer

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. – Albert Schweitzer

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity. – George Orwell

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