Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. Albert Schweitzer More Quotes by Albert Schweitzer More Quotes From Albert Schweitzer The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed. Albert Schweitzer disturbed balance civilization The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another. Albert Schweitzer philosophical nature animal At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned. Albert Schweitzer god faces Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. Albert Schweitzer sunday taken cheating 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. Albert Schweitzer wisdom wise attitude Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. Albert Schweitzer society nature men There is no higher religion than human service. Albert Schweitzer community-service public-service helping Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life. Albert Schweitzer evil giving life If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer success happy happiness 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 farewell humble kindness There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts. Albert Schweitzer god heart world In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing. Albert Schweitzer heart men peace To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time 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 as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought. Albert Schweitzer philosophical animal thinking To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Albert Schweitzer community-service careers helping To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself. Albert Schweitzer views exercise attitude Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. Albert Schweitzer independent integrity character Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. Albert Schweitzer laughter music reality 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 suffering pet animal To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed. Albert Schweitzer sacrifice responsibility fall Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives. Albert Schweitzer cat animal life
