478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.

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.

Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.