Quotes About Life

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "Reverence for Life."

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

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.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

True 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

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. 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. - Albert Schweitzer

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.

Ethics, 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.

Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.

Los años arrugan la piel, pero renunciar al entusiasmo arruga el alma.

Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.

As we understand life in ourselves, we want to understand life in the universe. in order to enter into harmony with it.

Ich bin Leben, das leben will, inmitten von Leben, das leben will.

the miracles were not intended to authenticate the teaching of Jesus, but to surround His life with a guard of honour."20

Ethik ist ins Grenzenlose erweiterte Verantwortung gegen alles, was lebt.

By itself the affirmation of life can only produce a partial and imperfect civilization. Only if it turns inward and becomes ethical can the will to progress attain the ability to distinguish the valuable from the worthless. We must therefore strive for a civilization that is not based on the accretion of science and power alone, but which cares most of all for the spiritual and ethical development of the individual and of humankind. How

Die Welt ist nicht nur Geschehen, sondern auch Leben.