Albert Schweitzer

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

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

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

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.

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.

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.

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

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.