"Reverence for Life says that the only thing we are really sure of is that we live and want to go on living. James Brabazon, author of Albert Schweitzer: A Biography, defined Reverence for Life as follows: Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil." In Civilization and Ethics, Schweitzer wrote: "Ethics is nothing other than Reverence for Life. The phrase Reverence for Life is a translation of the German phrase: " Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben." These words came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), while searching for a universal concept of ethics for our time. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( February 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This article possibly contains original research.
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