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Albert Schweitzer

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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.


— Albert Schweitzer


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My life is my argument.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.


— Albert Schweitzer


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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.


— Albert Schweitzer


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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.


— Albert Schweitzer


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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.


— Albert Schweitzer


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About Albert Schweitzer

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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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