Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
Albert SchweitzerTags: life inspirational spiritual uplifting
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
Albert SchweitzerTags: ethics
Die Liebe stirbt meistens and den kleinen Fehlern, die man am Anfang so entzückend findet.
Albert SchweitzerEthics, 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 SchweitzerAs soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
Albert SchweitzerNo one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.
Albert SchweitzerSoldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.
Albert SchweitzerTrue philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live
Albert SchweitzerTags: life consciousness philosophy living
The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.
Albert SchweitzerSeek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert SchweitzerTags: inspirational
« first previous
Page 3 of 8.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.