478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life

I decided that I would make my life my argument,

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

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life in the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms : Thou shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flow

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.