Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. Albert Schweitzer More Quotes by Albert Schweitzer More Quotes From Albert Schweitzer Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. Albert Schweitzer littles pay needs We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. Albert Schweitzer conscience government organization Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. Albert Schweitzer philosophical animal thinking To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude. Albert Schweitzer gratitude motivational inspirational Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical. Albert Schweitzer compassion life thinking The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. Albert Schweitzer witch-doctors health knowing The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others. Albert Schweitzer texture alive men We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. Albert Schweitzer privilege pain lord Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the Albert Schweitzer understanding views world By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe. Albert Schweitzer nature spiritual animal Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement. Albert Schweitzer color men hands You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially. Albert Schweitzer zest loss sleep An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances. Albert Schweitzer stronger ends ideas The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration? Albert Schweitzer hunting animal sports Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen. Albert Schweitzer nature heart men For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them. Albert Schweitzer great-men problem men Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. Albert Schweitzer twilight religious jesus I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others. Albert Schweitzer destiny may way The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires. Albert Schweitzer done soul joy In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. Albert Schweitzer success appreciation inspirational
