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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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.
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The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve
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Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
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Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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I am life that with to live in the midst of other life that wills to live.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil
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It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life
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It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life in the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms : Thou shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flow
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Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.
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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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Reverence for Life Revisited: Albert Schweitzer's Relevance Today.
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Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing