"We are on the right path, if we confide ourselves to our personal thinking and expect from it, to lead us to the knowledge and truth, which we need in order to stay alive."
Alber Schweitzer, theologian, music scholar, organist, philosopher and mission doctor was born in the Elsass. In 1928 he received the Goethepreis, in 1951 the peace price of the German book-trade and in 1952 the Nobel peace prize.
"At a bright summer morning, as I - it was the year 1896 - awoke in Günsbach (in the Elsass) on my Whit Holidays, the thought attacked me, that I may not take good fortune for granted but must give something in return. Before I got up I argued along with it in quiet consideration and, while the birds sang outside, I came to terms with myself, that I would entitle myself to the science and the art up to my thirtieth birthday and from thereon dedicate myself to the immediate direct human serving."