Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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  To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It’s really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Attitude, Health

  Tags in Exercise, Really

• Aim for service and success will follow.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Goal, Inspirational

• Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People

• True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: ‘I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Religion

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Time, Inner, Goes, Encounter, Rekindle, Then, Our, Into, Out, Thankful, Everyone, Fire, Being, Flame, Should, Spirit, Some, Those, Human, Burst, Inspiration

• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Cat

• The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats…

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music

• Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music
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  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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Happiness, Will

• Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Witty, Being, Simple, Long, Simplicity

• A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Saint, Angel

• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Inspirational, Kindness, Trust

  Tags in Hatred, Enemies, Understanding

• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Environment, Life, Truth

  Tags in Responsibility, Problems, Mankind

• If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn’t it never was.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Love

• Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Clever, Truth

  Tags in Animal, Men, Behave
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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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Inspirational, Love, Success

  Tags in Happiness, Key

• Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Inspirational

• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world — that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me — is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life, Service

  Tags in Good, Ethics, Credo, Creed, Possible
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  In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reaching, Blossom

Albert Schweitzer (81)

Birth:	14th January, 1875
Death:	4th September, 1965
Nationality:	German, French
Profession:	Philosopher, Physician, Theologian

About

Albert Schweitzer was a German and later French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa, also known for his interpretive life of Jesus. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa.

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