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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
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The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
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The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
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By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
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The doctor of the future will be oneself.