I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — 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
