James Wilson > James's Quotes

“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
― 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

“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”
― Albert Schweitzer

“The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.”
― Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

“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.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“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

“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.”
― Albert Schweitzer

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

“When I look back upon my early days I am stirred by the thought of the number of people whom I have to thank for what they gave me or for what they were to me. At the same time I am haunted by an oppressive consciousness of the little gratitude I really showed them while I was young. How many of them have said farewell to life without having made clear to them what it meant to me to receive from them so much kindness or so much care! Many a time have I, with a feeling of shame, said quietly to myself over a grave the words which my mouth ought to have spoken to the departed, while he was still in the flesh.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.”
― Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.”
― Dr. Albert Schweitzer

“There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.”
― Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought