True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.

— Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

— Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

— Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

— Albert Schweitzer

Was Luck is was anime, was such verdoppelt, went man ES talk.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

— Albert Schweitzer

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbor. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

— Albert Schweitzer