Albert Schweitzer Quotes (123 Quotes)

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you but one thing I know - the only ones among you who will be really happy will be those who have sought and found the way to serve

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhe

Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good

Example is not the main thing in life -- it is the only thing.

To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation... this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

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.

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.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for t.

Reverence for life ... does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful ... the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many.... It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

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

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats.

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

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

A flock of wild geese had settled to rest on a pond. One of the flock had been captured by a gardener, who had clipped its wings before releasing it. When the geese started to resume their flight, this one tried frantically, but vainly, to lift itself into the air. The others, observing his struggles, flew about in obvious efforts to encourage him but it was no use. Thereupon, the entire flock settled back on the pond and waited, even though the urge to go on was strong within them. For several days they waited until the damaged feather had grown sufficiently to permit the goose to fly. Meanwhile, the unethical gardener, having been converted by the ethical geese, gladly watched them as they finally rose together and all resumed their long flight.

Today ... we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain all living beings on earth are our neighbors.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.