478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have lost the sight of this ideal because we are solely occupied with thoughts of men instead of remembering th

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

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

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so strong as widespread. But the time must come where in humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by th

Think with great gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.