Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer, OMwas a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine and although that region had been annexed by the German Empire four years earlier, and remained a German possession until 1918, he considered himself French and wrote mostly in French...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth14 January 1875
CityKaysersberg, France
CountryGermany
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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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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.
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Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
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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.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all life in the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or expressed in negative terms : Thou shalt not kill. We take this prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flow
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
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What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
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Reverence for Life Revisited: Albert Schweitzer's Relevance Today.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil
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To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation... this is the difficult task which confronts our age.
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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic
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Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now—always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.