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Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
Born: Jan 14, 1875
Died: Sep 4, 1965
Ethics Life Man Will World You
Related authors: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Friedrich Schleiermacher Jakob Bohme Johann Kaspar Lavater Johannes Tauler Karl Rahner Paul Tillich Rudolf Otto
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. Albert Schweitzer
Man Angel Does Saint Order
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. Albert Schweitzer
You Somebody Everyday Something Get Which Paid
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
You Happy Will Those Only Sought How Really Who Found Serve Among
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer
Man Animal Clever Imbecile Like Behaves Who
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. Albert Schweitzer
Life Man Able Only Compulsion He Truly Anything Which Ethical Help Injuring Lives Shrinks Assist
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
Life Me Experience My Life Ocean Live Wave Must Never Part Around Always Surface Exist Itself Going Just Cannot Which Ever
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. Albert Schweitzer
Man Thought Something Mysterious Take Soon Does His Existence Begins Granted
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Albert Schweitzer
Life Live Others Also Becomes Happier Us Richer Harder
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. Albert Schweitzer
Nature Man Will Lost Earth Destroying He Foresee End Capacity
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. Albert Schweitzer
Life Good Spiritual World Become Relation Alive Enter Having Practicing Reverence Deep
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
Life Good Me You Ethics Further Definition Destroy Bad Give Maintain Damage
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
Faith Man Problems Will Responsibility Must Morals Environment Learn Exercise His Cease Personal Personal Responsibility Again Realm
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. Albert Schweitzer
Spiritual You Back Those Impart Something Road Accept Precious Being Them Much Your Who
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. Albert Schweitzer
Moving On Great Character Better Sometimes Light Mind Calamities Bends Those Oak Willow Tempest Spirits Recover Sooner Than Escapes Frivolous Often Happens Which Elasticity Presence
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. Albert Schweitzer
Life Man Will Lose He Part Reverence Loses His Any
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
Day World Thought Spirit Weigh Denied Against Should Granted Deed Jesus
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
You Happy Will Those One Thing Only Know Sought How Really Who Found Serve Among Thing
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is. Albert Schweitzer
Love Earth Possess Proof Spirit Highest Which Eternal Really Thing
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. Albert Schweitzer
Several Brother He African Centuries Younger Younger Brother
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
Good People Few Way Out Must Proposes Accept Calmly His His Way Lot Expect Roll Stones Anyone Who Even
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
Truth Spiritual History World Strong Weak Something Rests Firm Happens Creates Stands World History Suffers
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. Albert Schweitzer
Life Highest Court Reverence Appeal
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Albert Schweitzer
Life Success Great Man Secret Through Never Great Secret Go Up Gets Success Is Used Who
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
Man Worth Others Alive Colours True Come Himself True Worth Textures Found
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