Albert Schweitzer quotes Born: 01/14/1875 Died: 09/04/1965 Country: germany

• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. (Albert Schweitzer) [creation]
• We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. (Albert Schweitzer) [absolute/stranger]
• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. (Albert Schweitzer) [people]
• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. (Albert Schweitzer) [compassion/willpower/find/]
• The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer) [willpower/willpower]
• Example is leadership. (Albert Schweitzer)
• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. (Albert Schweitzer) [thing/thing]
• Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. (Albert Schweitzer) [wave/life/experience]
• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. (Albert Schweitzer) [sun/]
• The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others. (Albert Schweitzer) [human/life/compassion/willpower]
• As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. (Albert Schweitzer) [more/knowledge/more/more]
• A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. (Albert Schweitzer) [day/night/day]
• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. (Albert Schweitzer) [truth/time]
• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. (Albert Schweitzer) [religion/human/service]
• Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. (Albert Schweitzer) [being]
• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility. (Albert Schweitzer) [exercise/willpower/responsibility]
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. (Albert Schweitzer) [happiness/happiness/love/willpower]
• Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. (Albert Schweitzer) [light/human/being/light]
• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. (Albert Schweitzer) [truth]
• A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. (Albert Schweitzer) [life]
• The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. (Albert Schweitzer) [life]
• Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. (Albert Schweitzer) [human/being]
• A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. (Albert Schweitzer) [angel/order]
• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. (Albert Schweitzer)
• Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. (Albert Schweitzer)
• A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. (Albert Schweitzer) [day/night/day]
• A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. (Albert Schweitzer) [angel/order]
• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. (Albert Schweitzer) [life/animals/men/life]
• A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. (Albert Schweitzer) [help/life]
• An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. (Albert Schweitzer) [light]
• As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. (Albert Schweitzer) [take]

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