Albert Schweitzer World Quotations

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

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.

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.