Top 250 Albert Schweitzer Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.”

— Albert Schweitzer

152. “No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.”

— Albert Schweitzer

153. “Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.”

— Albert Schweitzer

154. “Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.”

— Albert Schweitzer

155. “The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.”

— Albert Schweitzer

156. “The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.”

— Albert Schweitzer

157. “The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what’s good.”

— Albert Schweitzer

158. “Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.”

— Albert Schweitzer

159. “Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.”

— Albert Schweitzer

160. “By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.”

— Albert Schweitzer

161. “I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.”

— Albert Schweitzer

162. “A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.”

— Albert Schweitzer

163. “We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.”

— Albert Schweitzer

164. “We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.”

— Albert Schweitzer

165. “One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”

— Albert Schweitzer

166. “Thought is the strongest thing we have.”

— Albert Schweitzer

167. “We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.”

— Albert Schweitzer

168. “Dare to face the situation... Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.”

— Albert Schweitzer

169. “The destiny of man is to be more and more human.”

— Albert Schweitzer

170. “The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.”

— Albert Schweitzer

171. “What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.”

— Albert Schweitzer

172. “Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.”

— Albert Schweitzer

173. “The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.”

— Albert Schweitzer

174. “Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.”

— Albert Schweitzer

175. “It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.”

— Albert Schweitzer

176. “I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”

— Albert Schweitzer

177. “A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.”

— Albert Schweitzer

178. “All work that is worth anything is done in faith.”

— Albert Schweitzer

179. “A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence – it is atonement.”

— Albert Schweitzer

180. “Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.”

— Albert Schweitzer

181. “The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.”

— Albert Schweitzer

182. “Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

183. “Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.”

— Albert Schweitzer

184. “No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. 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. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it – to remain children of light.”

— Albert Schweitzer

185. “O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.”

— Albert Schweitzer

186. “Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.”

— Albert Schweitzer

187. “Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.”

— Albert Schweitzer

188. “In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, ‘We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.’”

— Albert Schweitzer

189. “Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet.”

— Albert Schweitzer

190. “If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”

— Albert Schweitzer

191. “Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.”

— Albert Schweitzer

192. “From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.”

— Albert Schweitzer

193. “In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

195. “Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.”

— Albert Schweitzer

196. “Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”

— Albert Schweitzer

197. “Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.”

— Albert Schweitzer

198. “My life carries its own meaning in itself.”

— Albert Schweitzer

199. “A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.”

— Albert Schweitzer

200. “The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.”

— Albert Schweitzer