“The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.”

— Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought, 1933, Epilogue

About Albert Schweitzer

1875 – 1965

Alsatian theologian, physician and missionary, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1952).

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

“The historical Jesus will be to our time a stranger and an enigma.”

“Modern Christianity must always reckon with the possibility of having to abandon the historical figure of Jesus.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“The heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.”

“The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret.”

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves, but by love.”