“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

— Albert Schweitzer, Kulturphilosophie (1923)

About Albert Schweitzer

1875 – 1965

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

“The historical Jesus will be to our time a stranger and an enigma.”

“Modern Christianity must always reckon with the possibility of having to abandon the historical figure of Jesus.”

“Truth has no special time of its own.”

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are also worthy of love and belonging.”

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

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“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”