Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational Love, Believe, Thinking

• ...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Dark, America, People

• I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Dark, Medicine, Political

• 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

  Our World, Years, Ideas

• Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Strong, Age

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.33, Open Road Media

• The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Thinking, Age, Spirit

• 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

  Tree, Age, Trying

  Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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