Albert Schweitzer, 1875 - 1965
Deutsches Bundesarchiv photo (1952)
Born: 14 January 1875, Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire (now Haut-Rhin, France)
Died: 4 September 1965, Lambaréné, Gabon
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- A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert Schweitzer - A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as well as that of his fellowman, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Albert Schweitzer - An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.... The truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer - And now, when you speak about missions, let this be your message: We must make atonement for all the terrible crimes we read of in the newspapers. We must make atonement for the still worse ones, which we do not read about in the papers, crimes that are shrouded in the silence of the jungle night.
Albert Schweitzer - sermon (6 January 1905) - Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Albert Schweitzer - Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
Albert Schweitzer - Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of their way, but must accept their lot calmly, even if people roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer - The Spiritual Life (1947) - As long as I can remember, I have suffered because of the great misery I saw in the world. I never really knew the artless, youthful joy of living, and I believe that many children feel this way, even when outwardly they seem to be wholly happy and without a single care.
Albert Schweitzer - Memoirs of Childhood and Youth (1925) - As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
Albert Schweitzer - As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer - As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer - Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.
Albert Schweitzer - Kulturphilosophie (1923, English 1949) Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics - By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.
Albert Schweitzer - Christianity has had to give up one piece after another of what it still imagined it possessed in the way of explanations of the universe. In this development it grows more and more into an expression of what constitutes its real nature.
Albert Schweitzer - The Spiritual Life (1947) - Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
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