Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer, OMwas a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine and although that region had been annexed by the German Empire four years earlier, and remained a German possession until 1918, he considered himself French and wrote mostly in French...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth14 January 1875
CityKaysersberg, France
CountryGermany
gratitude grateful doe
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
brother century my-brother
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
behaves clever man
Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.
happiness health poor
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
concerning duty elementary expressed flow greatest life maintain negative reverence shalt share terms thou
It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life in the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms : Thou shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flow
respect real personality
Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
cheating taken sunday
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
destiny may way
I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.
men destiny humans
The destiny of man is to be more and more human.
attitude reality men
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.
respect real responsibility
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
people way today
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
cute destiny essence
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life
humanity may ifs
Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.