Quotes By Albert Schweitzer

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

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.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

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.

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 stones upon it.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

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.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

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.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.