478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record.

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.