7 Albert Schweitzer Quotes on Connection

Albert Schweitzer quotes on connection

23. Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

44. The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable, and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

89. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

90. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

105. The first step in the evolution of ethics is an enlargement of the sense of solidarity with other human beings.

119. We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

120. Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.