Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.

Albert Schweitzer

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Albert Schweitzer

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

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.

Albert Schweitzer

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

Alexandra Paul

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

Alexandra Fuller

Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.

Isabella Rossellini

I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature

Alexandra Fuller

I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try.

Nevil Shed

Let's make it better for tomorrow. That's what the journey is all about.

Yolette Etienne

Many residents of Port-au-Prince have told us they are too scared to make the journey to vote on Tuesday.

John Odrechowski

One journey is over. It is time to start a second.

Cameron Crowe

Music is like the other person in this film and it's really important for Orlando's character. It leads him on his journey and is with him on his road trip.

Charles R. Swindoll

Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.

Dennis Ritchie

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

Edgar Mitchell

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