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Albert Schweitzer Quotes

«Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have lost the sight of this ideal because we are solely occupied with thoughts of men instead of remembering th»
«Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'»
«Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.»
«No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but one thing I can tell you, as long as my ideas are alive I will be alive. We live in a dark frightening age. One reason for this is the part played by the ideology of inhumanity»
«A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.»
«In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. - Out of my life and Thought.»
«Any religion or philosophy, which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.»
«If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.»
«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.»
«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.»

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