478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.