Unknown UnknownCC BY-SA 3.0 deFile pageAlbert Schweitzer
- theologian
- philosopher
- physician
- organist
- physician writer
- university teacher
- musicologist
- music historian
- composer
- missionary
- pacifist
- author
- musician
- Born 1875-01-14
- Died 1965-09-04 (aged 90)
- Nationality German Reich, France
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| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 |  Albert Schweitzer | Movie | screenwriter | 82 |
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life — it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
Read the full quoteThe awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. We have reached the point of regarding each other only as members of a people either allied with us or against us and our…
Read the full quoteAny religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Read the full quoteDefined from outside and quite empirically, complete civilization consists in realizing all possible progress in discovery and invention and in the arrangements of human society, and seeing that they work together for…
Read the full quoteThis dogma had first to be shattered before men could once more go out in quest of the historical Jesus, before they could even grasp the thought of His existence. That the historic Jesus is something different from the…
Read the full quoteThus each successive epoch of theology found its own thoughts in Jesus; that was, indeed, the only way in which it could make Him live. But it was not only each epoch that found its reflection in Jesus; each individual…
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Personal details
- Nationalities
- German Reich, France
- Languages
- German, Alsatian, French
- Record labels
- Columbia Records, Philips Records
- Notable works
- The Quest of the Historical Jesus
- Education
- University of Strasbourg, University of Tübingen, philosophy faculty of the German university of Prague