478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

A good example has twice the value of good advice

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.