Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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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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The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats…
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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.
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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.
– Albert Schweitzer

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

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
– 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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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
– Albert Schweitzer

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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

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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
– Albert Schweitzer

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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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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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