Quotes

“Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.” Albert Schweitzer

“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.” Albert Schweitzer

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.” Albert Schweitzer

“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.” Albert Schweitzer

“I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.” Albert Schweitzer

“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.” Albert Schweitzer

“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” Albert Schweitzer

“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.” Albert Schweitzer

“Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.” Albert Schweitzer

“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” Albert Schweitzer

“Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.” Albert Schweitzer

“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

“Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.” Albert Schweitzer

“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.” Albert Schweitzer

“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.” Albert Schweitzer

“Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.” Albert Schweitzer

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

“We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.” Albert Schweitzer

“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.” Jonathan Swift

“May you live all the days of your life.” Jonathan Swift

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” Jonathan Swift

“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.” Jonathan Swift

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” Jonathan Swift

“A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.” Jonathan Swift

“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” Jonathan Swift

“Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.” Jonathan Swift

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” Jonathan Swift

“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.” Jonathan Swift