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
years doctors giving
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
family long-distance-relationship witty
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.
motherhood fundamentals reverence-for-life
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
brother true-friend men
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
serious-illness long host
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
spiritual strong truth
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
damage-is-done giving definitions
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
pain lying hard-times
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
jesus ordinary demand
The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.
animal past wish
In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.
father sleep evil
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
among sought
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
among found happy sought
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
gets great life man secret success
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.