The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — 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
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
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — 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
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — 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
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — 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
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
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual 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
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
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
