Albert Schweitzer

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

In the midst of the marred, the criminal, the wretched, the triumphant face of the human spirit is always born anew.

The great secret of a successful life is to be able to give up in order to grow.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his personality.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must roll them himself.

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.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, over the stone, the first rays of the tropical sun smote the body, movement was apparent.

To be a doctor, then, means much more than to dispense pills and to patch up or repair ailing bodies.

The thinking man who follows nature, and yet can sometimes feel, and wish to do himself, what nature herself does, is the true civilization.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

One does not reflect on life. One lives.

The path of progress is so narrow that, if one does not keep the rules, one falls over the edge.

In order to illustrate the difference between the two, let us consider the case of a man who is to be hanged.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

The words of the Bible are the thoughts of men of God.

A great man's greatest work is to make himself a great man.

The art of living is to seek the good in others.

Everything deep is also logical.