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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The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.
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There is no higher religion than human service.
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You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
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Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.
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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
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The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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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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Reverence for Life Revisited: Albert Schweitzer's Relevance Today.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil
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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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Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.