478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This fact can neither be shaken nor confirmed by any historical discovery. It is the solid foundation of Christianity.

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.