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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
