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Albert Schweitzer

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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.


— Albert Schweitzer


#life #spiritual #uplifting #inspirational

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...


— Albert Schweitzer


#life #music #life

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was


— Albert Schweitzer


#love

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.


— Albert Schweitzer


#happiness #key #key to success #love #success

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


— Albert Schweitzer


#ethics #peace #vegetarianism #ethics

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.


— Albert Schweitzer


#inside #life #lives #man #tragedy

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.


— Albert Schweitzer


#sight #spare #suffering #think #which

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.


— Albert Schweitzer


#happiness #service #destiny

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.


— Albert Schweitzer


#influencing #main #main thing #only #others

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.


— Albert Schweitzer


#cause #deep #each #flame #goes






About Albert Schweitzer

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Did you know about Albert Schweitzer?

He also studied piano at that time with Marie Jaëll. Schweitzer also studied piano under Isidor Philipp head of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory. Schweitzer's interpretative approach greatly influenced the modern understanding of Bach's music.

Schweitzer a Lutheran challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles as well as the traditional Christian view. As a music scholar and organist he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement (Orgelbewegung). He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine at that time part of the German Empire.

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