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Albert Schweitzer — Portrait after a picture by Émile Schneider (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Albert Schweitzer

French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher

1875–1965

15 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Morality and Truth & Lies.

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 Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164
- Life & Death
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, Chapter 26
- Life & Death
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: “I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.”
Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, Chapter 26 “The Civilizing Power of the Ethics of Reverence for Life”
- Life & Death
- Philosophy

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