“The deepest thinking is humble. It is only concerned that the flame of truth which it keeps alive should burn with the strongest and purest heat; it does not trouble about the distance to which its brightness penetrates.”

—  Albert Schweitzer

Source: Indian Thought And Its Development (1936), Ch. XVI : Looking Backward and Forward, p. 257

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French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph… 1875–1965

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