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
sad lonely loneliness
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
philosophical animal thinking
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
cheating taken sunday
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
motivational strength crazy
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
ocean marine animal
Animal protection is education to the humanity.
autumn fields lips
The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
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.
enemy morality indifference
The great enemy of morality is indifference.
integrity angel men
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
granted harvest
It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.
spiritual thinking soul
I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
men destiny humans
The destiny of man is to be more and more human.
doctors secret modern-medicine
It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.
evil giving fundamentals
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.