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
sleep loss zest
You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.
philosophical animal men
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.
mystery spiritual-life highest
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
soul suffering ifs
Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
thinking years ideas
Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.
becoming-who-you-are path awakening
The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
long philanthropy remains
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
jesus father teaching
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord.
carpe-diem dare carpe
There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.
life study profundity
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
humanity stressed human-nature
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
love love-is increase
Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
compassion people spirit
All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.
legs ants privacy
That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.