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Albert Schweitzer quotes
“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.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“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.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“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.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.”
— 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 respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.”
— 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
“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“My life is my argument.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“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.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”
— 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
“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“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.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.”
— Albert Schweitzer
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