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
birthday men sight
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
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.
men giving may
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
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.
god faith hope
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
animal views way
My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.
life ambition past
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.
animal pet suffering
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
men self way
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
happiness men numbers
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.
pain long earth
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.
hero differences making-a-difference
One person can and does make a difference.
compassion doe finding-peace
If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
moving rights organization
The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.