Quotes from Albert Schweitzer
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
- Albert Schweitzer
The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
- Albert Schweitzer
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
- Albert Schweitzer
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
- Albert Schweitzer
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
- Albert Schweitzer
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
- Albert Schweitzer