There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether… — 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
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own. — 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
The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation:… — 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
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
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
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
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of… — 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 . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — 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
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
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
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower… — 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 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
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort. — 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
