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Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

Albert Schweitzer
Achievement, Reverence For Life, Direct
Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.109, Oxford University Press

In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.

Albert Schweitzer
Animal, Past, Wish

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

Albert Schweitzer
Damage Is Done, Giving, Definitions
Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.

Albert Schweitzer
Nature, Pain, Fate

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

Albert Schweitzer
Mean, World, Affirmation
Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Albert Schweitzer
Overcoming, Separation, Natural

Only through love can we obtain communion with God.

Albert Schweitzer
Spirituality, Communion, Communion With God

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude, Sunshine, Expression
Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.5, Open Road Media

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer
Men, United
Albert Schweitzer (2009). “Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook”, p.82, Oxford University Press

In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.

Albert Schweitzer
Attitude, Tragedy, World
Albert Schweitzer (1949). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, New York : H. Holt

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

Albert Schweitzer
Carpe Diem, Dare, Carpe
"The Teaching of Reverence for Life".

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

Albert Schweitzer
Animal, Compassion, Circles

The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

Albert Schweitzer
Jesus, Usual, Ordinary
"Reverence for Life".

We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us

Albert Schweitzer
May, Made, Wells

...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task.

Albert Schweitzer
Dark, America, People

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

Albert Schweitzer
Knowing Who You Are, Forgiving, Noise
Albert Schweitzer, Steven E. G. Melamed (2003). “The African Sermons”, p.29, Syracuse University Press

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 from which he cannot be separated.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Men, Ethics

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Albert Schweitzer
Spiritual, Stronger, Reverence For Life
Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Pain, Long

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Death, Sunset
"Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook".

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

Albert Schweitzer
Motivational, Coaching, Looks

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

Albert Schweitzer
Darkness, Gathering, World

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

Albert Schweitzer
Equality, Legs, Ants

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude, Men, Heaven
"Reverence for Life".

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

Albert Schweitzer
World, Way, Lasts
Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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