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WT Sharpe · 02-20-2011, 05:13 PM

.....Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed through my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "reverence for life." The iron door had yielded: the path in the thicket had become visible. Now I had found my way to the principle in which affirmation of world and life affirmation and ethics are joined together!
.....I was at the root of the problem. I knew that the ethical acceptance of the world and of life, together with the ideals of civilization contained in this concept, has its foundation in thought.
..........— Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Alsatian-born physician, organist, philosopher. Out of My Life and Thought (© 1933 and 1949 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc.), ch. XIII.

02-20-2011, 05:13 PM	#1282
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed through my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "reverence for life." The iron door had yielded: the path in the thicket had become visible. Now I had found my way to the principle in which affirmation of world and life affirmation and ethics are joined together! .....I was at the root of the problem. I knew that the ethical acceptance of the world and of life, together with the ideals of civilization contained in this concept, has its foundation in thought. ..........— Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Alsatian-born physician, organist, philosopher. *Out of My Life and Thought* (© 1933 and 1949 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc.), ch. XIII.