Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of …

Albert Schweitzer
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Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst. ✨ Albert Schweitzer (1956). An anthology
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