Men Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.

— Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

— Albert Schweitzer

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

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

— Albert Schweitzer

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which…

— Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

— Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he…

— Albert Schweitzer

Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to…

— Albert Schweitzer

Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have…

— Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to…

— Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life…

— Albert Schweitzer

A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to…

— Albert Schweitzer

The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the…

— Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a…

— Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need…

— Albert Schweitzer

To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower…

— Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and…

— Albert Schweitzer

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness…

— Albert Schweitzer

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

— Albert Schweitzer

The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.

— Albert Schweitzer

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may…

— Albert Schweitzer

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of…

— Albert Schweitzer

I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping…

— Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness…

— Albert Schweitzer

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates.…

— Albert Schweitzer

The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and…

— Albert Schweitzer