Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

You don`t live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it`s a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

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

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts.

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

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.

Serious illness doesn`t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it`s the only thing

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

In everyone`s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.