Albert Schweitzer

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 alive.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

My life is my argument.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.