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
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and… — 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
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain… — 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
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour.… — 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
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to… — 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
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
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — 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
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness. — 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
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
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
I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a… — 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
