Quote

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

Albert Schweitzer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
Composer
Missionary
Music Historian
Musicologist
Organist
Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
Theologian
University Teacher
Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
Make
Skepticism
Bent
Branches
Fruit
Tree
Tying
Age
Fruitful
Truth
Barren
Trying
Fruits

More quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Image
One person can and does make a difference.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
The destiny of man is to be more and more human.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
Do something good and someone might imitate it.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
Thought is the strongest thing we have.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
Albert Schweitzer
Image
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
Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
Albert Schweitzer
Image
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer