Pessimist Sees Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

— Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

— 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

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

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

— Albert Schweitzer

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

— Albert Schweitzer

“ 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

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

— Albert Schweitzer

The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

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

— Albert Schweitzer

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

— Albert Schweitzer