478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth, and beauty.

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism.

The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it— to remain children of light.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man’s help– something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something as unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.