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
love-life thinking each-day
Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.
men problem great-men
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
civilization movement ethical
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
overcoming separation natural
Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.
disappointment heart waiting
Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
community-service helping public-service
There is no higher religion than human service.
people understanding important
I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.
may made wells
We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
struggle fate guilty
In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
responsibility animal opportunity
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.
views world vices
World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
joy desire ifs
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
intellectual found difficult
I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
spiritual strong age
Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.