The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life… — 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
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who… — 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
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and… — 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
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — 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
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
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of… — 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
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
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 thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“ 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 Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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 Image
For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
