Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

A good physician goes to be helpful where there is most sickness. So a good philosopher should be where there is most stupidity

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.