Top 250 Albert Schweitzer Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.”

— Albert Schweitzer

102. “Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter – to all these music gives voice.”

— Albert Schweitzer

103. “Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.”

— Albert Schweitzer

104. “I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage – very important things to me – and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.”

— Albert Schweitzer

105. “Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

107. “All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.”

— Albert Schweitzer

108. “The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve.”

— Albert Schweitzer

109. “We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us.”

— Albert Schweitzer

110. “In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”

— Albert Schweitzer

111. “We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”

— Albert Schweitzer

112. “To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.”

— Albert Schweitzer

113. “Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.”

— Albert Schweitzer

114. “Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”

— Albert Schweitzer

115. “Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.”

— Albert Schweitzer

116. “Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.”

— Albert Schweitzer

117. “Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now – always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.”

— Albert Schweitzer

118. “The only way out of today’s misery is for people to become worthy of each other’s trust.”

— Albert Schweitzer

119. “Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.”

— Albert Schweitzer

120. “Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.”

— Albert Schweitzer

121. “A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”

— Albert Schweitzer

122. “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.”

— Albert Schweitzer

123. “Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.”

— Albert Schweitzer

124. “As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.”

— Albert Schweitzer

125. “Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

126. “Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.”

— Albert Schweitzer

127. “A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.”

— Albert Schweitzer

128. “The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.”

— Albert Schweitzer

129. “It’s not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.”

— Albert Schweitzer

130. “Don’t stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.”

— Albert Schweitzer

131. “The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”

— Albert Schweitzer

132. “I must forgive without noise or fuss.”

— Albert Schweitzer

133. “Think with great gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

— Albert Schweitzer

134. “Constant Kindness can accomplish much.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

137. “The great enemy of morality is indifference.”

— Albert Schweitzer

138. “There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.”

— Albert Schweitzer

139. “It is a man’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”

— Albert Schweitzer

140. “Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”

— Albert Schweitzer

141. “Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.”

— Albert Schweitzer

142. “The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.”

— Albert Schweitzer

143. “You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.”

— Albert Schweitzer

144. “Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.”

— Albert Schweitzer

145. “Preservation of life is the only true joy.”

— Albert Schweitzer

146. “Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.”

— Albert Schweitzer

147. “Keiner darf die Augen schliessen und das Leiden, dessen Anblick er sich erspart, als nicht geschehen ansehen.”

— Albert Schweitzer

148. “Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.”

— Albert Schweitzer

149. “The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.”

— Albert Schweitzer

150. “Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.”

— Albert Schweitzer