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, 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
It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had… — 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
We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to… — 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
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 witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor… — 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
Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of… — 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
There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who… — 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 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
