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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.”

Albert Schweitzer on philosophy

Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics, Chapter 26 “The Civilizing Power of the Ethics of Reverence for Life”

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