“Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.”

— Albert Schweitzer, Kulturphilosophie, Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, 1923

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About Albert Schweitzer

1875 – 1965

Alsatian theologian, physician and missionary, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1952).

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