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
pain lying world
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
brother husband father
It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
joy desire ifs
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
love faithful being-faithful
Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.
believe flames ideas
I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.
intellectual found difficult
I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
want
I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
spiritual strong age
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.
earning-it way example
Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.
laughter voice giving
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
pain privilege lord
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
motto ask-me asks
You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.
dark medicine political
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
dark america people
...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.