Albert Schweitzer Quotes
1875 – 1965
Alsatian theologian, physician and missionary, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1952).
20 quotesAbout Albert Schweitzer on Wikipedia
“The historical Jesus will be to our time a stranger and an enigma.”
“Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.”
“It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.”
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
“The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.”
“The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.”
“Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith.”
“We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.”
“The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.”
“It is good to maintain and further life — it is bad to damage and destroy life.”
“The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.”
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct.”
