Quotes from Albert Schweitzer

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

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.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

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.

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

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.

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

Only through love can we obtain communion with God.