Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always... →
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.
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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... →
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.