Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 14. Januar 1875 |
Geburtsort | Alsace-Lorraine |
Todesdatum | Samstag, 04. September 1965 |
Todesort | Gabon |
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Beschreibung | Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (* 14. Januar 1875 in Kaysersberg bei Colmar, Elsaß-Lothringen; † 4. September 1965 in Lambaréné, Gabun) war ein deutsch-französischer Arzt, Philosoph, evangelischer Theologe, Organist, Musikwissenschaftler und Pazifist. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Schweitzer, der „Urwaldarzt“, gründete ein Krankenhaus in Lambaréné im zentralafrikanischen Gabun. Er veröffentlichte theologische und philosophische Schriften, Arbeiten zur Musik, insbesondere zu Johann Sebastian Bach, sowie autobiographische Schriften in zahlreichen und vielbeachteten Werken. 1953 wurde ihm der Friedensnobelpreis für das Jahr 1952 zuerkannt, den er 1954 entgegennahm. |
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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.
Example is leadership.
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.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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.
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.
