Albert Schweitzer Quotes

• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

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  Tags in Obstacles, Overcoming, Never Give Up

• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in History, Truth

  Tags in Happens, Spirit

• 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

• Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

  Albert Schweitzer

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  Tags in Misery, Pain, Help, Feel, Personal

• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

  Albert Schweitzer

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• Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

  Albert Schweitzer

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  Tags in Someone

• Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, Else

• We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

  Albert Schweitzer

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  Tags in Brotherhood, Possibly, Stranger

• We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

  Albert Schweitzer

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  Tags in Dying, Loneliness

• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

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  Tags in Compassion, Passion, Peace, Man, Living

• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Truth

• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Occasionally

• Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

  Albert Schweitzer

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  Tags in Helping

• Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Wonder, Tree

• Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

  Albert Schweitzer

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  Tags in Orphan, Rest

• My life is my argument.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Argument

• 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

• Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

  Albert Schweitzer

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  Tags in Deed, Denied, Especially, Granted, Spirit

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Clever, Truth

  Tags in Animal, Men, Behave

• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Attain, Embraces, Living

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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