8 Albert Schweitzer Quotes on Action

Albert Schweitzer quotes on action

15. Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

25. The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.

43. Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

81. Example is leadership.

82. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing.

88. I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

98. My life is my argument.

115. This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as an actual putting it into practice.