Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
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.
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.