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
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Reverence for Life Revisited: Albert Schweitzer's Relevance Today.
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As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
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This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as an actual putting it into practice.
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Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now—always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic
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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.
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Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow human beings. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.
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Today we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth are our neighbors
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The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.
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The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.