Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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.

Our society has also ceased to allow to all men, as such, a human value and a human dignity; many sections of the human race have become merely raw material and property in human form.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

Because of the continuity of its tone, which can be maintained as long as desired, the organ has in it an element of the eternal. Even in a secular room it cannot become a secular instrument.

Jesus was called to throw himself on the wheel of world history, so that, even though it crushed him, it might start to turn in the opposite direction.

Tom Wright, The Lord and His Prayer (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1996), 69.

Keberhasilan bukanlah kunci menuju kebahagiaan. Kebahagiaan adalah kunci menuju keberhasilan. Jika Anda mencintai apa yang Anda lakukan, Anda akan berhasil.

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.

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through its experience of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.