Author of quotes: Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who calls for good should not count on people to clear his path of boulders, but must meekly accept his fate even when someone puts extra boulders in his path.

Only one who takes his intentions for granted, and not out of the ordinary, who regards them not as heroism, but as his duty, accepted with enthusiasm and at the same time with a sober understanding of his unconditional duty, is able to become a spiritual seeker of adventures that the world needs. There are no heroes of action, there are heroes of selfless and suffering. There are a lot of them. But only a few of them are known, and then not to the crowd, but to a few.

Humanity is never to sacrifice a person to any goal.

When one hundred thousand people are killed with a single bomb, it is my duty to prove to the world how valuable one single human life is.

There are few days in my life that belonged to me personally, even hours that I could devote to my wife and child. But I was also given a lot of benefits. The good thing was that I had the opportunity to work in the service of mercy; that my work was successful; that I received affection and kindness from others in abundance; that I had faithful helpers who inextricably linked themselves to my activities; that I rejoiced in the health that allowed me to undertake the most grueling work; that I had a balanced character and an energy that was calm and circumspent; finally, that I knew how to appreciate all the happiness that fell to my lot, taking it at the same time as a blessing that leaves me a debtor.

There is no person who does not have the opportunity to give himself to people and thereby manifest his human essence. Anyone who uses every opportunity to be human can save their lives by doing something for those who need help - no matter how modest their activities.

The spirit of the times contributes to the skepticism of modern man towards his own thinking, making him more susceptible to authoritarian truth. He cannot provide the necessary resistance to this constant influence, since he is an over-busy, unassembled, fragmented creature. In addition, multilateral material dependence affects his mentality in such a way that in the end he loses faith in the possibility of independent thought.

I am writing these lines while sitting at the table in the large reception room, and I try not to pay attention to the noise that reigns here. Every minute I am interrupted by various questions. Every now and then we have to jump up and give some instructions. But I'm used to writing in such conditions. It is important for me to be in the hospital at this time, at my post, in order to see and hear everything that is happening there, and to be responsible for everything.

Each of us must follow his own path, but it must be the path of a person who seeks to help in the cause of deliverance from misfortune. If there are people who rebel against the spirit of thoughtlessness and, through their personal qualities, are able to make the ideals of ethical progress emanating from them an effective force, then spiritual activity will begin that will be strong enough to change the mental and spiritual state of mankind.

The idea of reverence for life emerges as a realistic answer to the realistic question of how man and the world relate to each other. A person only knows about the world that everything that exists, like himself, is a manifestation of the will to live ... The only possible way to give meaning to his existence is to elevate his natural connection with the world and make it spiritual.

I am a life that wants to live, in the thick of other lives that want to live.

A person who has now become a thinking person feels the need to relate to any will for life with the same reverence as to his own. He feels the other life as part of his own. He considers it good to keep life, to help her; to raise to the highest level a life capable of development; evil - to destroy life, harm it, suppress life capable of development. This is the main absolute principle of ethics.

The decline of the philosophical basis of culture was revealed, philosophy became philosophizing without thinking, the revolt of the natural sciences easily overthrew philosophical fantasies, and philosophers were unable to create an optimistically ethical worldview.

Morality begins where ends the conversation.