Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. — 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
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to… — 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
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truths and of spirit, I believe in the future of mankind.- The Philosophy of… — 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
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is… — 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
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as… — 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… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah...and died to give his work its final consecration never existed. ["Modern… — 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
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves… — 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
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
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
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and… — 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
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe. — 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
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
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,… — 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