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Quotations By Albert Schweitzer


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

Ethics
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This 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.

Ethics
Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.

Ethics
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Respect
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. -- Albert Schweitzer

Success
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.