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Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer was a German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and
physician. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Elsass-Lothringen , at the
time in the German Empire. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as
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Albert Schweitzer: A man can do only what a man can do. But
if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again
the next day. #Integrity
Albert Schweitzer:Not one of us knows what effect his life
produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us
and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some
little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. #Courage
Albert Schweitzer: Example is leadership. #Example
Albert Schweitzer: Example is not the main thing in influencing
others. It is the only thing. #Example
Albert Schweitzer: The awareness that we are all human
beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
#Uncategorised
Albert Schweitzer:I was convinced — and I am so still — that
the fundamental principles of Christianity have to be proved
true by reasoning, and by no other method. Reason, I said to
myself, is given us that we may bring everything within the
range of its action, even the most exalted ideas of religion. And
this certainty filled me with joy. #Christians and Christianity
Albert Schweitzer:Life becomes harder for us when we live for
others, but it also becomes richer and happier. #Life and Living
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. In a remarkable process of spiritualization it advances
further and further from naive naiveté into the region of
profound naiveté. The greater the number of explanations that
slip from its hands, the more is the first of the Beatitudes,
which may indeed be regarded as prophetic word concerning
Christianity, fulfilled: "Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs
is the Kingdom of Heaven." #Self-confidence
Albert Schweitzer:Therefore search and see if there is not
some place where you may invest your humanity. #Education
Albert 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. #Spirit and Spirituality
Albert Schweitzer:I must interpret the life about me as I
interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meaning to me.
The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am
to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the
other life I see, however strange it may be to mine. And not
only other human life, but all kinds of life: life above mine, if
there be such life; life below mine, as I know it to exist. Ethics
in our Western world has hitherto been largely limited to the
relations of man to man. But that is a limited ethics. We need a
boundless ethics which will include the animals also.
#Kindness
Albert Schweitzer:Happiness is nothing more than good health
and a bad memory. #Happiness
Albert Schweitzer: The purpose of human life is to serve and
show compassion and the will to help others. #Kindness
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. #Service
Albert Schweitzer:World-view is a product of life-view, not vice
versa. #Business
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. #Deeds and
Good Deeds
Albert Schweitzer:The mistake made by all previous systems of
ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the
mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life
meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is
applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of
Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost
sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for
natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life. #Life
and Living
Albert Schweitzer: Man can hardly even recognize the devils of
his own creation. #Devil
Albert Schweitzer: There is no higher religion than human
service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
#Service
Albert Schweitzer:To the man who is truly ethical all life is
sacred, including that which from the human point of view
seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each
case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity,
as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two
lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all
through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on
subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the
responsibility for the life which is sacrificed. #Age and Aging
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