The silver-maned, bush-mustached old lion of a man had barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. “O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!” shouted the photographers. “Stand over ...

Reverence for life affords us a fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil. So I ...

True peace calls for reverence for life. No society can live in peace with itself, or with the world, without a full awareness of the worth and dignity of every human person and of the sacredness of ...

“Reverence for Life” is a phrase from Dr. Albert Schweitzer and it became his axiom for living. He said, “Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. What we call love is in ...

Albert Schweitzer was, by all accounts, one of the great heroes of the 20th century. A talented musician and theologian, Schweitzer attended medical school in his 30s, giving up a much-admired ...

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Albert Schweitzer was nine decades old when he died, a fitting age for a life so worthy, and a span sufficiently protracted beyond his main achievements that he himself had heard all possible praise ...

Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875 to 1965) was a philosopher, theologian, musician, the preeminent designer of organs for the massive cathedrals built in Europe in the early 1900s and a physician with a ...

America has entertained briefly on his first visit to its shores one of the world's foremost if hitherto little known physicians. Albert Schweitzer, now nearly seventy-five years of age, the son of an ...