Albert Schweitzer Quotes about Respect

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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Albert Schweitzer

Life, Death, Respect

Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Albert Schweitzer

Respect, Real, Personality

Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.14, Open Road Media

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Respect, Religious, Profound

Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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

"Philosophy of Civilisation". Book by Albert Schweitzer (1923), translated by C. T. Campion, 1949.