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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

Albert Schweitzer
Lamps, Burning, Rejoice
Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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

Albert Schweitzer
Inspirational, Business, Apology
"A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer".

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Thinking, Compassion

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

Albert Schweitzer
Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful
"A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer".

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

Albert Schweitzer
Want, Midst
Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.40, Open Road Media

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Albert Schweitzer
Nature, Heart, Men

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

Albert Schweitzer
Animal, Able, Quiet

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Albert Schweitzer
Brother, Helping Others, Volunteer

I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.

Albert Schweitzer
What Matters, Temptation, Healthy
"Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

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

Albert Schweitzer
Motivational, Strength, Stress

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Albert Schweitzer
Mind, Born, Institutions
Albert Schweitzer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. November 4, 1954.

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

Albert Schweitzer
Guidance, Difficult, Difficult Things

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

Albert Schweitzer
Kindness, Heart, Men
Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.62, Open Road Media

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

Albert Schweitzer
Humanity, May, Ifs
Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.

Albert Schweitzer
Example, May

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
Doctors, Physicians, Patient

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Albert Schweitzer
Beautiful, Tree, World
Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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

Albert Schweitzer
Appreciation, Responsibility, Helping Others

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Albert Schweitzer
Respect, Real, Personality
Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.14, Open Road Media

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
Freedom, Kindness, Compassion
Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.

Albert Schweitzer
Believe, Optimistic, Reality
Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

Albert Schweitzer
Autumn, Fields, Lips
Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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
Life, Cat, Animal

It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

Albert Schweitzer
Health, Doctors, Medicine

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

Albert Schweitzer
Darkness, Together, Lightning
Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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