The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.
Albert SchweitzerEthics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
Albert SchweitzerTo educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
Albert SchweitzerAs soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
Albert SchweitzerThe 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.
Albert Schweitzer