Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

“The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?”

“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.”

“When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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”

“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”

“It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.”

“The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do.”

“My life is my argument.”

“It is not enough merely to exist. Its not enough to say, Im earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. Im a good father, husband, churchgoer. Thats all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhe”

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”

“Cats dont like change without their consent.”

“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”

“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.”

“The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.”

“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.”

“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.-”