Character Quote by Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy,…

— Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

— Albert Schweitzer

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining,…

— Albert Schweitzer

When one has reverence for life, one will never do anything to harm, hinder, or destroy life. Instead one bends every effort to help…

— Wilferd Peterson

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

— Albert Schweitzer

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

— Ruth Gordon

“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to…

— Anthony Burgess

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

— Plutarch

“I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems only fair that…

— Fernando Pessoa

We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws.…

— Ernest Renan

It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life

— Albert Schweitzer