Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality. — 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
“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
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation:… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united… — 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
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists… — 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
There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are Just as the wave cannot… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — 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
Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow… — 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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