Albert Schweitzer quotes
Born
14 January 1875 Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany (now Haut-Rhin, France).
Died
4 September 1965.
Occupation
Theologian, organist, philosopher, physician.
Albert Schweitzer was a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. He was born in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine and although that region had been integrated into the German Empire four years earlier, and remained a German province until 1918.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
– Albert Schweitzer
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
– Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
– Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
– Albert Schweitzer
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
– Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
– Albert Schweitzer
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.
– Albert Schweitzer
My life is my argument.
– Albert Schweitzer
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
– Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
– Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
– Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
– Albert Schweitzer
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
– Albert Schweitzer
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.
– Albert Schweitzer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
– Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
– Albert Schweitzer
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
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.
– Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
– Albert Schweitzer
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
– Albert Schweitzer
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
– Albert Schweitzer
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
– Albert Schweitzer
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
– Albert Schweitzer
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
– Albert Schweitzer
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
Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
– Albert Schweitzer
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
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
– Albert Schweitzer
Example is leadership.
– Albert Schweitzer
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
– Albert Schweitzer
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
– Albert Schweitzer
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
– Albert Schweitzer
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
– Albert Schweitzer
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
– Albert Schweitzer
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
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
– Albert Schweitzer
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
– Albert Schweitzer
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
– Albert Schweitzer
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
– Albert Schweitzer
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
– Albert Schweitzer