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Albert Schweitzer

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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.


— Albert Schweitzer


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


— Albert Schweitzer


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


— Albert Schweitzer


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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.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.


— Albert Schweitzer


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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.


— Albert Schweitzer


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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.


— Albert Schweitzer


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About Albert Schweitzer

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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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