"Our age is bent on trying to..." - Quote by Albert Schweitzer

“Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.”

“Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.”

“We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.”

“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”

“The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.”

“Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.”

“..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.”

“Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.”

“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.”