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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Albert Schweitzer
Born: January 14, 1875
Died: September 4, 1965 (aged 90)
Bio: Albert Schweitzer was a German and later French theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire, though he considered himself French and wrote mostly in French.
Known for:
- The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906)
- Out of My Life and Thought (1931)
- The philosophy of civilization (1951)
- The mysticism of Paul the apostle (1931)
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