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
inspirational motivational success
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
philosophical animal thinking
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
thankful gratitude expression
Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
appreciation responsibility helping-others
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
relationship karma kindness
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
war together lost
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
men hands color
Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.
sports animal hunting
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
leadership people important
The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.
religious jesus twilight
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
heart compassion animal
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.
god faces
At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
joy soul done
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
eye men humanity
Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.