Albert Schweitzer Quotes

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or...

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. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much str...

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of yo...

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.

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

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of ano...

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our d...

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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

As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

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.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and...

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

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

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...

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.