Albert Schweitzer Quotes

• Aim for service and success will follow.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Goal, Inspirational

• Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People

• 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 wants to live.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Religion

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Love

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Inspirational

• The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats…

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music

• In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reaching, Blossom

• 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

• The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alive, Found

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Kindness, Life

  Tags in Compassion, Solidarity

• The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Possess, Highest, Already

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life, Success

  Tags in Great, Secret

• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Ethics, Solidarity

• 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

• Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Kindness, Service

  Tags in Gratitude, Flame

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help

• Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Reverence, Appeal, Court

• Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greater, Revenge, Violence

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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