Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
I am in complete disagreement with the spirit of our age, because it is filled with contempt for thought.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
