Albert Schweitzer

Medicine German-French 1875 – 1965 246 quotes

Nobel Peace Prize physician-philosopher

Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

The highest good is not to be found in the pursuit of happiness, but in the pursuit of a worthy cause.

Reverence for Life

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Out of My Life and Thought

The greatest evil is not to act.

Reverence for Life

The only true revolution is the spiritual revolution.

Reverence for Life

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

Reverence for Life

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Out of My Life and Thought

The only way to learn is to live.

Reverence for Life

The only way to overcome fear is to face it.

Reverence for Life

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

Reverence for Life

The only way to truly be happy is to be grateful.

Reverence for Life

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

Philosophy of Civilization 1923

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

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Philosophy of Civilization 1923

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

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