It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing. — 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
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
“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
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
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the… — 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
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
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
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
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
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — 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
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
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
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.” — 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
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
Sometimes our light goes out,but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.. — 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
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our… — 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
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy,… — 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 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
