Quotes from Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

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.

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

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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.

My life is my argument.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

Let your life be your argument.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

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.

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.