“The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.”
“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”
“Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.”
“Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.”
“World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.”
“Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.”
“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”
“Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.”
“The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.”
“Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life”
