If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we… — 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
If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift.… — 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
