He was the famous Alsatian-born German theologian, philosopher, organist, and mission doctor. His family for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and education.He was the great humanitarian, inspirational person and writer.
In 1952 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of "the Brotherhood of Nations." Two years before his death, his hospital and leper colony were serving 500 patients. His philosophical books discuss his famous principle of "reverence for life."
(1875-1965))
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
~ Albert Schweitzer
My life is my argument..
~ Albert Schweitzer
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
~ Albert Schweitzer
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
~ Albert Schweitzer
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
~ Albert 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.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
~ Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
~ Albert Schweizer
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
~ Albert Schweizer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
~ Albert Schweizer
He personifies struggle. He is still leading the fight against apartheid with extraordinary vigour and resilience after spending nearly 27 years of his life behind bars in South Africa before he became the country's first black president.
He has sacrificed his private life and his youth for his people, and remains South Africa's best known and loved hero. During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily.
He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid
movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.
(1918 -)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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