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












There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
More Albert Schweitzer quotes
"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
"As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.
"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
"Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.
"In everyone's 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 than...
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith a...
"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a w...
"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 helpfull...
"True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that w...