Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Mind Your Own Business, Devil

• When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Character, Animal, Men

• Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational Love, Believe, Thinking

• The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Autumn, Fields, Lips

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

• Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Animal, Vegetarianism

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