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
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics… — 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
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
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
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than… — 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
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself. — 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
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“ 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 Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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 Image
For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image