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Albert Schweitzer

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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


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It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.


— Albert Schweitzer


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As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.


— Albert Schweitzer


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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.


— Albert Schweitzer


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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


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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.


— Albert Schweitzer


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


— Albert Schweitzer


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About Albert Schweitzer

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Did you know about Albert Schweitzer?

He also studied piano at that time with Marie Jaëll. Schweitzer also studied piano under Isidor Philipp head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory. Schweitzer's interpretative approach greatly influenced the modern understanding of Bach's music.

Schweitzer a Lutheran challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles as well as the traditional Christian view. As a music scholar and organist he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement (Orgelbewegung). He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine at that time part of the German Empire.

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