Albert Schweitzer Quotes
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~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color-blind.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quote
