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. Albert Schweitzer More Quotes by Albert Schweitzer More Quotes From Albert Schweitzer Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. Albert Schweitzer truthspecialtime Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside. Albert Schweitzer doctorspatienthealth By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Albert Schweitzer respectreligiousprofound 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 cute-friendshipbeing-sadspiritual The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything. Albert Schweitzer gratitudegivingmean Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them. Albert Schweitzer evilmenthinking Aim for service and success will follow! Albert Schweitzer aim Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. Albert Schweitzer treebeautifulworld There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it. Albert Schweitzer suffering-and-deathveganvegetarian If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released. Albert Schweitzer compassionheartmen Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles. Albert Schweitzer principleslawheart If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself. Albert Schweitzer finding-peacecompassiondoe A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement. Albert Schweitzer guiltdonerace The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education. Albert Schweitzer organizationrightsmoving Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used. Albert Schweitzer pieceshumanitymay As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. Albert Schweitzer thoughtfulgratitudescience Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. Albert Schweitzer philosophicalstronganimal The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. Albert Schweitzer adversitycharacterlife Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals. Albert Schweitzer religiousdogfriendship 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 menlifethinking
