Albert Schweitzer Reverence Quotations

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

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.

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

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

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

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

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

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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