Albert Schweitzer Quotes

the miracles were not intended to authenticate the teaching of Jesus, but to surround His life with a guard of honour.”20

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

I do not know our destinies, but one thing I know, the only ones among you who will be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

It is only an ethical movement which can rescue us from the slough of barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

The only essential thing is that we strive to have light in ourselves. Our strivings will be recognized by others, and when people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts.

was important, therefore, to overthrow superstition and to bring religion within the domain of reason. First of all the priesthood must be deprived for ever of its influence. Then an improvement of the social condition of mankind must be introduced, since the level of morality depends upon social conditions. Jesus was a social reformer. Through the attainment of “the highest perfection of which Society is capable, universal peace” was “gradually to be brought about.

There was need, in addition to those earlier, purely historical Gospels, of a Gospel at once theological and historical, like that of John,” in which Jesus should be presented, not as the Jewish Messiah, “but as the Saviour of the World.

The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

Grow into your ideals, so that life can never rob you of them.” If all of us could become what we were at fourteen, what a different place the world would be!

The only ones among us who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

making men less shallow and morally better by making them think. O–219

The essential element in Christianity as it was preached by Jesus and as it is comprehended by thought, is this, that it is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-Love.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is
the key to success.

Vernunft und Herz müssen miteinander wirken, wenn eine wahre Sittlichkeit zustande kommen soll.

It will always remain incomprehensible that our generation, which has shown itself so great by its discoveries and inventions, could fall so low in the realms of thought.