Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Nobody teaches life anything.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.