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
love-life thinking each-day
Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.
love faithful being-faithful
Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.
love life nature
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
love knowledge-of-god foundation
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.
difficult ethic love task
To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation... this is the difficult task which confronts our age.
love funny music
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
love inspirational motivational
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
inspirational-love believe thinking
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.
love love-is increase
Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
love essence reverence-for-life
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
love doe behavior
Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.
love loneliness often-is
We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
love-is reality living-reality
Love ... is a living reality.
fellow forces gruesome human life nature power win
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.