Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Loyalty, Peace, Rhyming

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Leadership, Men, Able

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

• I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Compassion, Foundation, Reverence For Life

• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Responsibility, Exercise

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational Life, Integrity, Evil

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

• The great enemy of morality is indifference.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Enemy, Morality, Indifference

• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Perfection, Personality

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.30, Open Road Media

• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Animal, Thinking Man

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.69, Open Road Media

• Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Reverence For Life, Ethics, Morality

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Evil, Giving

• Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Evil

• A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Integrity, Angel, Men

• Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Damage Is Done, Giving, Definitions

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

• Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motherhood, Principles, Fundamentals

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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