Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

About Albert Schweitzer:

Albert Schweitzer was a German—and later French—theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa, also known for his historical work on Jesus. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire, though he considered himself French[citation needed] and wrote mostly in French.
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

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 will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

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

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Albert Schweitzer

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Albert Schweitzer

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Albert Schweitzer

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Albert Schweitzer

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

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.

Albert Schweitzer

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Albert Schweitzer

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

Author Bio

  • NameAlbert Schweitzer
  • DescriptionFrench-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
  • AliasesSchweitzer, Albert
  • BornJanuary 14, 1875
  • DiedSeptember 4, 1965
  • CountryGermany; France
  • ProfessionTheologian; Philosopher; Physician; Organist; Polymath; Writer; Music Historian
  • AwardsNobel Peace Prize; Goethe Prize; Order Of Merit For Arts And Science; Peace Prize Of The German Book Trade; Honorary Citizen Of Frankfurt Am Main; Knight Of The Legion Of Honour