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List of Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 347 inspiring quotes by Albert Schweitzer.

About Albert Schweitzer

  • Born: January 14, 1875
  • Died: September 4, 1965
  • Occupation: Theologian
    • What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. from every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.
    Mean Views World
    All art speaks in signs and symbols. no one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. no artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.
    Inspirational Art Expression
    My life carries its own meaning in itself.
    Life Meaning Of Life Carrie
    We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. we are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.
    Jesus Heart Animal
    Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. to relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. all profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite will which is continuously manifested in the universe.
    Spiritual Thinking Self
    Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.
    Views Optimism World
    What has been presented as christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown christianity springing from the spirit of jesus.
    Jesus Mistake Nineteen
    The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
    Cities Skepticism Built
    My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. this is what i do myself. and in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.
    Animal Views Way
    The ethic of reverence for life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. it keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.
    Responsibility Animal Opportunity
    We are gripped by god’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. to be glad instruments of god’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
    Imperfect World Saving Helping
    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.
    Brother True Friend Men
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