Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift.… — 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
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
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
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. — 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
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
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
I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the… — 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
In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — 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
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
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“As we understand life in ourselves, we want to understand life in the universe. in order to enter into harmony with it.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort. — 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
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