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Albert Schweitzer Quotes - Page 6

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: "I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

"Kulturphilosophie"(Philosophy of Civilisation) by Albert Schweitzer, translated by C. T. Campion, Chapter 26, 1949.

A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.69, Open Road Media

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of 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.

"The evolutions of ethics". The Atlantic Monthly, CCII, reprinted in "Unified English", Ardent Media, p. 247, November 1958.