Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to ser...

Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you g...

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

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

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivi...

One thing I know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought an...

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

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

Example is leadership.

I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage – very...

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another hum...

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his perso...

The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a ma...

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surroun...

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

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

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest...

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am li...

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spirit...

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find pe...

If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be, if it doesn't it never...

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of hi...

I therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and ve...

You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the t...

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it...

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that ...

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

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suf...

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest u...

O heavenly Father,protect and bless all thingsthat have breath: guard themfrom all evil and let them...

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

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole tr...

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing...

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something fo...

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah...and died to give his work its final...

Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are ...

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. ...

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

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

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and su...

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - h...

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought an...

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

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

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encount...

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly ...

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

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

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

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more nobl...

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

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmo...

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

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

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has caus...

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

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it emb...

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be re...

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so...

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept...

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