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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There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.
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The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do.
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Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.
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It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
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It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life in the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms : Thou shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flow
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Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so strong as widespread. But the time must come where in humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by th
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Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have lost the sight of this ideal because we are solely occupied with thoughts of men instead of remembering th
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It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life
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We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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Today we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth are our neighbors