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
time truth integrity
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
religious dog prayer
Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
aim
Aim for service and success will follow!
nature men society
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
spiritual cute-friendship being-sad
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
beautiful tree world
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
want midst
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
spiritual independent reverence-for-life
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
faith needs done
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
life profound demand
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
basketball argument life-is
Let your life be your argument.
animal men thinking-man
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
strong animal men
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.
brother helping-others volunteer
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.