Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ”

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. ”

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. ”

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. ”

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. ”

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ”

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

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. ”

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ”

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. ”