Albert Schweitzer Quotes

French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)

Albert Schweitzer (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian philosopher, philanthropist, physician, theologian, missionary, and musicologist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.

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Alternative Names: Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer • Docteur Schweitzer • Швейцер, Альберт • Альберт Швейцер • Schweitzer

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The fact that the work today has become common property may console us for the other fact that an analysis of it is almost as impossible as it is to depict a wood by enumerating the trees and describing their appearance. We can only repeat again and again — take them and play them and penetrate into this world for yourself. Aesthetic elucidation of any kind must necessarily be superficial here, What so fascinates us in the work is not the form or the build of the piece, but the world-view that is mirrored in it. It is not so much that we enjoy the Well-tempered Clavichord as that we are edified by it. Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these it gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

Der Zufall ist das Pseudonym, das der liebe Gott wählt, wenn er inkognito bleiben will.

Wer sich vornimmt, Gutes zu wirken, darf nicht erwarten, dass die Menschen ihm deswegen Steine aus dem Weg räumen, sondern muss auf das Schicksalshafte gefasst sein, dass sie ihm welche daraufrollen.

Because of the continuity of its tone, which can be maintained as long as desired, the organ has in it an element of the eternal. Even in a secular room it cannot become a secular instrument.

Die Welt ist nicht nur Geschehen, sondern auch Leben.

Mit drei Gegnern hat sich die Ethik auseinanderzusetzen: mit der Gedankenlosigkeit, mit der egoistischen Selbstbehauptung und mit der Gesellschaft.

"The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah...and died to give his work its final consecration never existed. ["Modern Christian Thought: The twentieth century, Volume 2" by James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, p.13]"

The audience was transported, not only by the work but also by the fine dynamics of the choir, which were something unusual in those days. Not less powerful was the religious impression made by Bach’s music. “The crowded hall looked like a church,” writes Fanny Mendelssohn. “Every one was filled with the most solemn devotion; one heard only an occasional involuntary ejaculation that sprang from deep emotion.

هناك شيئان يبعثان على السلوان ويخففان على الإنسان مصائب الحياة: الموسيقى والقطط

O, heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace.