“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” — Albert Schweitzer, a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire. 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. He depicted Jesus as one who literally believed the end of the world was coming in his own lifetime and believed himself to be a world savior. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life”, expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement (Orgelbewegung).

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”

— Albert Schweitzer, a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire. 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. He depicted Jesus as one who literally believed the end of the world was coming in his own lifetime and believed himself to be a world savior. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life”, expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement (Orgelbewegung).

Notes

  1. hyohonitenichi-ryu reblogged this from quotevadis
  2. whileyouseethestars reblogged this from quotevadis
  3. kisoptimist reblogged this from quotevadis
  4. elisabethyopa reblogged this from quotevadis
  5. hannahelizo0 reblogged this from quotevadis
  6. mchaggasworld reblogged this from quotevadis
  7. roguepolymath reblogged this from quotevadis
  8. hereispaloola reblogged this from quotevadis
  9. warriorface reblogged this from quotevadis
  10. freakthink reblogged this from quotevadis
  11. modularized reblogged this from quotevadis
  12. pynkshock reblogged this from quotevadis
  13. avlalcycsaorno reblogged this from quotevadis
  14. plateddough reblogged this from quotevadis
  15. avinalaf reblogged this from quotevadis
  16. daisiesblowinginthewind reblogged this from quotevadis
  17. vmmm reblogged this from quotevadis
  18. frapau reblogged this from quotevadis
  19. no-not-that-guy reblogged this from quotevadis
  20. chiashengtai reblogged this from quotevadis
Web Statistics