Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. Albert Schweitzer More Quotes by Albert Schweitzer More Quotes From Albert Schweitzer The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve Albert Schweitzer real happiness way The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for. Albert Schweitzer difficult-things difficult guidance Constant Kindness can accomplish much. Albert Schweitzer karma compassion kindness What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place. Albert Schweitzer realization matter war Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious. Albert Schweitzer love-life doe thinking Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing Albert Schweitzer leadership healing sports We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill. Albert Schweitzer often-is loneliness love I decided that I would make my life my argument. Albert Schweitzer decided argument Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life Albert Schweitzer evil 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 they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life. Albert Schweitzer strength spiritual life The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. Albert Schweitzer invention devil quiet I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me. Albert Schweitzer understanding important people Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. Albert Schweitzer respect real responsibility But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record. Albert Schweitzer honesty pain jesus We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. Albert Schweitzer space ignorance kindness The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good. Albert Schweitzer gratitude business believe Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe. Albert Schweitzer bears men thinking Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it. Albert Schweitzer strong spiritual age Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning. Albert Schweitzer rejoice burning lamps Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. Albert Schweitzer independent spiritual world
