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“Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.”

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John Ray, born on November 29, 1627, and died on January 17, 1705, was a renowned British botanist and naturalist. He made significant contributions to the development of botanical taxonomy. more

“When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.”

World Long Movement Machines Regard Mathematics Philosopher Details Traditional Uncertainty Explanation Spheres Weary Definite Behalf Systematic Builder

Author:Nicolaus Copernicus

“For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now”

Life Years Lost Lord

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.”

Ifs World Mean Affirmation Will To Live

Book:Civilization and Ethics

Source: Civilization and Ethics

“Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.”

World Whole Understanding Views Steps Mankind Western Awakening World View

Book:Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed

Source: Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed

“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.”

Men Want Pain Used Suffering Animal Poor Week Sight Horse Sticks Endure Driven One Man Another Man Slaughterhouses Limping

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.”

Mind Born Ideals Function Institutions Expected

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.”

Achievement Direct Reverence Reverence For Life Will To Live

Book:Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook

Source: Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook

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