Albert Schweitzer Quotes

• You must not expect anything from others. It’s you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it’s up to you — your own choices — what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Expectations, Service

  Tags in Choice, Choosing

• The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Several, African, Younger, Century

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Escapes, Elasticity, Frivolous, Better, Calamity

• As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Existence, Granted, Thought, Begin

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deed, Denied, Especially, Granted, Spirit

• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Acceptance, Good, Difficulties

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Hardly, Recognize, Devils

• If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Reverence, Men

• Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Reverence, Appeal, Court

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exist, Ocean, Connection

• Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inhospitable, Illness, Long

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dying, Loneliness

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Attain, Embraces, Living

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Passion, Peace, Man, Living

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Social Service, Richer, Happier, Harder, Live

• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it — a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Ethics, Civilization

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Consists, Purpose, Human

• Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone

• We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brotherhood, Possibly, Stranger

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reverence, Relationships, Spirit

Albert Schweitzer (81)

Birth:	14th January, 1875
Death:	4th September, 1965
Nationality:	German, French
Profession:	Philosopher, Physician, Theologian

About

Albert Schweitzer was a German and later French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa, also known for his interpretive life of Jesus. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa.

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