This book has a collection of Schweitzer's quotations on ethics and the human spirit. The emphasis is on the importance of the reverence for life and how following that ethic leads us to what is essential for civilization. The table of contents: Introductory Note; Feeling for Animal Life; Respect for Life; Mutual Knowledge; Riddles of Existence; The Meaning of Philosophy; Goethe; The Sanctuary of Thought; Religion Is Not a Force; When Thinking Was Religious; What Do I Think? A New Ethical System Needed; Reverence for Life; Human Awareness; The Goal of True Thought; The Only Way to Save Ourselves; Among the Africans; The Will to Live.