In addition to a preface by Rhena Schweitzer Miller and Antje Bultmann Lemke, this translation incorporates revisions and additions Schweitzer made for the French translation of 1960 and those he made for thirty years in his own copy of the original German edition. Schweitzer believed there was a way to live in the world, accept it, take joy from it―and who could know this better than a man who had placed himself so much in it, given so much for it, and had been ready to receive experience as a gift to be thankful for.
Reverence for Life became his life's motto, and it brought him pain as well as joy as he sought to respect how precious and unique each life is. And, he wished to honor something greater than he was―reverence for life. He wanted to clarify his reasons and methods for his undertakings and to respond to some of his critics. He had been fortunate to be in the right places at the right times, to meet people of thought and sympathy. He had become a legend and he wanted to remind readers that he was just a man, and a man who had learned from many others. Eloquent and heartfelt."― Los Angeles Times Of the many highly esteemed books Albert Schweitzer penned in his life, he valued his autobiography the most.
" Out of My Life and Thought shatters the old myth and allows us to glimpse the real Albert Schweitzer, a man whose moral example is as relevant and compelling in the 1990s as it was in the 1930s on first publication.
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