Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The ethics of reverence for life makes no distinction between higher and lower, more precious and less precious lives. It has good… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
“ Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share
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