Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Hardly, Recognize, Devils

• 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

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life, Respect

  Tags in Profound

• 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

• 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

• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Gratitude, Flame

• 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

  Topics in Spirituality

  Tags in Road

• 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

• 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

• I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

  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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Misery, Charity

• An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Pessimism, Optimism

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Saint, Angel

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, Compassion, Reverent, Foundation

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Consists, Purpose, Human

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Success

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Influencing, Example

• Example is leadership.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Example

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Nature

• No one has ever come back from the other world. I can’t console you, but one thing I can tell you, as long as my ideas are alive I will be alive. We live in a dark frightening age. One reason for this is the part played by the ideology of inhumanity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Age, Funny

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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