Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

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

You dont live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Even if its 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.

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.

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

As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

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

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

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

In everyones life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.