478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Dare to face the situation... Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.

The only way out of today’s misery is for people to become worthy of each other’s trust.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what’s good.

It is a man’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought – that is a real force.

If people would wake that feeling of compassion within themselves, the suffering of others would affect them more often, and the desire to alleviate it, if not prevent it, would grow inside them. Then, the active involvement in the suffering of other beings would become the supreme life principle in everyday reasoning, feeling and the activity of individuals.

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being, may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Soldiers’ graves are the greatest preachers of peace.