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Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer, OM was a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. He was born in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine and although that region had been reintegrated into the German Empire four years earlier, and remained a German province until 1918, he considered himself French and wrote mostly in French. His mother-tongue was Alsatian German.

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Albert Schweitzer

“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

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

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

“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”

“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.”

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”

“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”

“Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.”

“Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.”

“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.”

“By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.”

“By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.”

“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”

“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”

“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”

“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”

“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

“My life is my argument.”

“My life is my argument.”

“By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.”

“By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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