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Reverence Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his…
- Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm,…
- Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the…
- Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to…
- What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be…
- To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a…
- Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in…
- The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which…
- Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase…
- Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . .…
- A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
- Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
- What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
- ...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of…
- Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power…
- If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and…
- Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
More Reverence Quotes
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost… — Annie Besant
- Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler
- If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our… — John Ruskin