Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter read more

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.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that read more

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -Albert Schweitzer.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of read more

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than read more

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.