If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
“ Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
