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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I don't know what your destiny will be, but 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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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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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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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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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.