A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him. — Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. — Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. — Albert Schweitzer

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

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. — Albert Schweitzer

Preservation of life is the only true joy. — Albert Schweitzer

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

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

I decided that I would make my life my argument. — Albert Schweitzer

I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live. — Albert Schweitzer

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life. — Albert Schweitzer

A greAt secret of success is to go through life As A mAn who never gets used up. — Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. — Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — Albert Schweitzer

World–view is a product of life–view, not vice versa. — Albert Schweitzer

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life. — Albert Schweitzer

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

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing. — Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. — Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and The will to help oThers. — Albert Schweitzer

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness. — Albert Schweitzer

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own. — Albert Schweitzer

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be. — Albert Schweitzer

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help. — Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere… Even if it’s a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. — Albert Schweitzer

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what’s good. — Albert Schweitzer

Creative energy is the essence of all healing…We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within. — Albert Schweitzer

It’s supposed to be a secret, but I’ll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within. — Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. — Albert Schweitzer

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world. — Albert Schweitzer

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 helpfully to all life that is in need of help. — Albert Schweitzer

I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage–very important things to me–and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me. — Albert Schweitzer

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. — Albert Schweitzer

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another. — Albert Schweitzer

You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE. — Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human. — Albert Schweitzer

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. — Albert Schweitzer

There is no higher religion than human service. — Albert Schweitzer

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips. — Albert Schweitzer

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

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome. — Albert Schweitzer

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

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 thankful for those people who rekIndle the Inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

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

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. — Albert Schweitzer

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human. — Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now–always. — Albert Schweitzer

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome. — Albert Schweitzer

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning. — Albert Schweitzer

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. — Albert Schweitzer

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism. — Albert Schweitzer

Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good. — Albert Schweitzer

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. — Albert Schweitzer

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else. — Albert Schweitzer

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it. — Albert Schweitzer

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches. — Albert Schweitzer

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer

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

The spirit of The age is filled with The disdain for thinking. — Albert Schweitzer

The Bhagavad–Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions. — Albert Schweitzer

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles. — Albert Schweitzer

What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus. — Albert Schweitzer

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

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct. — Albert Schweitzer

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

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it. — Albert Schweitzer

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised. — Albert Schweitzer

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts. — Albert Schweitzer

You don’t live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too. — Albert Schweitzer

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst. — Albert Schweitzer

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live. — Albert Schweitzer

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world. — Albert Schweitzer

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. — Albert Schweitzer

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. — Albert Schweitzer

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good. — Albert Schweitzer

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality. — Albert Schweitzer