Albert Schweitzer

My life carries its own meaning in itself.

Albert Schweitzer

My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.

Albert Schweitzer

My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.

Albert Schweitzer

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Albert Schweitzer

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Albert Schweitzer

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer