478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing

But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.