Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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Albert Schweitzer

Profession : Theologian

Birth : January 14, 1875

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer

My life is my argument.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Albert Schweitzer

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Albert Schweitzer

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Albert Schweitzer

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Albert Schweitzer

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Albert Schweitzer

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

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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

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

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

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Albert Schweitzer

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Albert Schweitzer

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

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

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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Albert Schweitzer

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

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