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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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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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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.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Example is leadership.


— Albert Schweitzer


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.


— 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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