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Informationen über Albert Schweitzer

Theologe, Philosoph, Universalgelehrter, Missions-Arzt, ging 1913 nach Lambaréné/Westafrika und errichtete eine Lepra-Station, Friedens-Nobelpreis/1952 (Frankreich, 1875 - 1965).

Albert Schweitzer · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Albert Schweitzer wäre heute 149 Jahre, 3 Monate, 11 Tage oder 54.523 Tage alt.

Geboren am 14.01.1875 in Kaysersberg
Gestorben am 04.09.1965 in Lambaréné/Gabun
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• 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 on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

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• Better to have high principles which one follows than to have even higher ones which one neglects.

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• Democracy starts within the family, in everyday life.

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• Ethics are a kind of infinitely extended responsibility towards everything alive.

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• Every human being is your concern as human being.

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• Going to church doesn't make you a christian, just as entering a garage won't turn you into a car.

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• Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory.

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• I don't know what your destiny will be, but 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.

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• Kindess works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindess. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

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• Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, 'Reverence for Life'.

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• Man has become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate, physical forces, but because he is in command . . . of latent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service . . . But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts . . . is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

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• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

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• 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. The way in which power works is a mystery.

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• 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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• Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

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• Progress is a great thing - if we all agree on the direction.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Reverence for life does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful to the community in so doing. Reverence for life does not permit the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many by its means. Reverence for life refuses to let the businessman imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. Reverence for life demands.

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• The rule of reserve is broken by the right to cordiality.

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• The salvation of our world consists not in new measures but in new ways of thinking.

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