Albert Schweitzer

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The morality we have lived by was fragmentary only. We must abandon it in favor of the complete, all-embracing love expressed in ‘reverence for all life.’

Albert Schweitzer

The only ones among us who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

Albert Schweitzer

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

Albert Schweitzer

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

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

Albert Schweitzer