Albert Schweitzer quotes page 1
Born on January 14 in 1875, Albert Schweitzer would go on to become one of the
world's most impressive and revered physicians, philosophers, and medical missionaries, and a man that would go on
to win the Nobel Prize in 1952 for his work "Reference for Life." Born in Germany (but holding both German and
French citizenship throughout his life), Albert was drawn to both the musical world as well as the land of academia
from a young age - two passions that he held dearly close to his heart until the day he died in September 1965. His
education began underneath his father (a pastor) who used to break up his lessons by teaching him how to play music
on the church organ. In 1893 he began to study Protestant theology in a German university, and continued to
practice his piano and organ playing while taking lessons from some of the best musicians and teachers in the
country. Completing his theology degree (as well as receiving his PhD in theology) in 1899, he was certain that his
license was to serve mankind, to serve Jesus Christ, and to help everyone and anyone he came in contact with.
Writing books that were at the time considerably controversial (including The Quest of the Historical Jesus), he
continued to examine theology through a new lens that would go on to shape and inform theologians for years and
years to come. Armed with a medical degree (that he successfully achieved in 1912), he also worked to become a
doctor in Gabone, Africa - a location that would become his final resting place.
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 Schweizer
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us
owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find
peace.
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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Constant kindness can accomplish
much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes
misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one
thing I know: The ones among you who will
be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the
compulsion to help all life which he is able to
assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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From naive
simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the
red stoplight. The truly wise person is color-blind.
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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect
people to roll stones out of his way, but
must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
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A man does not have
to be an angel in order to be a saint.
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Schweitzer
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable
a host.
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Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and
cats.
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Schweitzer
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the
heaving surface of the
ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on
around me.
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Schweitzer
You
must give time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others.
Something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
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Schweitzer
Eventually all things fall into place.
Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments,
and know Everything happens for reason.
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Schweitzer
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.
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Schweitzer
The
beginning of all spiritual life of any real value is courageous faith in truth.
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Schweitzer
It is through the idealism of youth that
man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he
possesses a wealth which he must
never exchange for anything else.
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Schweitzer
In case my life should end with
cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone: "We have
eaten Dr Schweitzer. He was good to the end."
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Schweitzer
The
most important thing in education is to make young people think for themselves.
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Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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Schweitzer
To the
man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of
view seems lower on the scale.
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Schweitzer
Whoever
is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of
others.
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Schweitzer
As we
acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more
mysterious.
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Schweitzer
Love
includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
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Schweitzer
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.
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Schweitzer
Do something wonderful, people may
imitate it.
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Schweitzer
No one can give a definition of the
soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense
of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and
aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth
and beauty.
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Schweitzer
Example is leadership.
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Schweitzer
It's
not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self
more noble and to relize his own
true worth.
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