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
life spiritual thinking
Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.
inspirational life motivational
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
life fall everything-happens-for-a-reason
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
life grief bad-ass
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
inspirational life sympathy
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
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.
life appeals court
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
life ethics reverence
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
motherhood fundamentals reverence-for-life
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
mystery spiritual-life highest
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
life study profundity
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
love essence reverence-for-life
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
nature animal life-is
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
beings earth life living maintain neighbors pain spared strive today
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