Quotes from Albert Schweitzer
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- 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 gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
- Albert Schweitzer
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
- Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was.
- Albert Schweitzer
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
- Albert Schweitzer
All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
- Albert Schweitzer
The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
- Albert Schweitzer