The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — 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
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy,… — 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
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. — 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
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
Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and… — 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
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his 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
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
...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for… — 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
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — 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
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
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to… — 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
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
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — 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
![“What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a…” quote by Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/930/albert-schweitzer-701_amusement_what-does-reverence-for-life-say-abut-th_685565.jpg)
