Albert Schweitzer

In everyone there are all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, from some other person.

Albert Schweitzer

In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

It doesn’t matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

Albert Schweitzer

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

Albert Schweitzer

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

Albert Schweitzer

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

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

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