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
responsibility animal opportunity
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.
tree age trying
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
gratitude destiny law
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
fate animal vegetarianism
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
views world vices
World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
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.