Quotes from Albert Schweitzer

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.

It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

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.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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?

Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that 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.