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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Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
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Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
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To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation... this is the difficult task which confronts our age.
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The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing
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Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.
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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.
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Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow human beings. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.
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Because I have confidence in the power of truths and of spirit, I believe in the future of mankind.- The Philosophy of Civilization.
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This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as an actual putting it into practice.
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Any religion or philosophy, which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.