Albert Schweitzer

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

The full measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.

Albert Schweitzer

The fundamental fact of human awareness is this: ‘I am life that wills to live in the midst of life that wills to live.’ A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The fundamental principle of morality is that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

Albert Schweitzer

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

The highest proof of the Spirit is love. Love is the eternal thing which men can already on earth possess as it really is.

Albert Schweitzer