Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Alsatian polymath. He was a theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
– Albert Schweitzer

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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
– Albert Schweitzer

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If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn’t it never was.
– Albert Schweitzer

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats…
– Albert Schweitzer

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you will be successful.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
– Albert Schweitzer

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
– Albert Schweitzer

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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
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The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret…. It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
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