“The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”
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As of a Trumpet, 1968, p. 43
As of a Trumpet

As quoted in Successful Aging : A Conference Report (1974) by Eric Pfeiffer, p. 142
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1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1983)

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”

Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
Context: Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
In reverence for life my knowledge passes into experience. The simple world- and life-affirmation which is within me just because I am will-to-live has, therefore, no need to enter into controversy with itself, if my will-to-live learns to think and yet does not understand the meaning of the world. In spite of the negative results of knowledge, I have to hold fast to world- and life-affirmation and deepen it. My life carries its own meaning in itself. This meaning lies in my living out the highest idea which shows itself in my will-to-live, the idea of reverence for life. With that for a starting-point I give value to my own life and to all the will-to-live which surrounds me, I persevere in activity, and I produce values.
The Theology of Civilization (May 1899)

Kant, Immanuel (1996), pages 141
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798)