Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Mankind

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  • Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

    Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.245, Henry Holt and Company
  • Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.

    Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”
  • Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

    Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)
  • 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 (1956). “An anthology”
  • We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

    Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.66, Open Road Media
  • Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest.

  • The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

  • Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

    On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Ch. 5
  • All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

    Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.62, Open Road Media
  • I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

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Albert Schweitzer

  • Born: January 14, 1875
  • Died: September 4, 1965
  • Occupation: Theologian