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It must be all the same to the citizens of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other; likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full liberty is equally guaranteed for everyone.
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There is indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.
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Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of various notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.
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The incorporation of every individual in a collective mechanism of production, would mean the renunciation for man himself of its independence and his dignity as a rational being. The results of such a state of things would be: regression and deterioration in every fields of life. For the true progress consist in the accomplishment of higher ends, and these would be directly made impossible in a coercive social mechanism. Let us think to the fate that, in these conditions, new truths would have in store.
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In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal good.
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On the account that one person advocate and want something, it does not follow that others have to want it too; only the postulates of reason and certitude are identical, invariables, and can always be of use to everyone as a fulcrum with a view to a free agreement.
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Education has a tremendous power on man. Can't we see to which astonishing disciple the people of Sparta have submitted for centuries, and this with a view to very petty purposes: purely outer greatness, the military predominance of Sparta. This example proves that man can everything on themselves when they want it; therefore it would only be a question of making them will the good.
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Whether we had a good moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize, having no consideration for others, than we physically are by a sickening smell.
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It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.
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What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.
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Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.
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If the confusion of spirits, obsession of consciousness, abandonment of religious and moral principles was to become widespread, the consequences could be become such that we would finally see crop up in the very heart of the civilization, a new and appalling barbarism capable to engulf all the acquisitions of the past.
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The supreme blossoming of character lies in renunciation and abnegation of self.
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There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.
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The peculiar value that such and such activity can have for a man rather really depends on the spirit in which it was deployed than its importance or its scope. Thus the most humble work can be accomplished by a great genius, whereas the highest functions, such as to rule over a whole people, can be practiced in a petty spirit of personal glorification, as it is frequently seen.
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The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist.
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There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.
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Infringing upon the right of a single person, we overthrow the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break the undertakings enter unto, nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly in another.
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As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about severe disasters, if we do turn life in time the social life in new directions.
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Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.
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As humanity has begun with flint tools, and has arrived little by little to the so powerful and perfected machines of today, so man, by shaping himself generation after generation, will arrive to a degree of perfection of which, up to here, the exemple was given to us only by rares individuals.
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It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may build justice.
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To succeed in brilliant businesses, to achieve great success, that is what the ambition and efforts of the majority of men aim at, but after all, what do they get for it? Softer cushions, better meat, more outward thoughtfuls, maybe medals... that is all. And to think that there are found serious men who consume their whole existence in the pursuit and the expectation of these trivialities.
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The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
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The distinction between right and wrong, is nothing else than their unyielding opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond every empirical data. It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish the real basis of morality.
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Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to the inner development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering soul can set oneself and stick to everything that is noble and generous.
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To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them in a new spirit.
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The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity. Deep down, they are also related among them; that they consider themselves as strangers, this just depends on the feeling that dictate their relationships. In their country, two fellow countrymen whose paths barely cross with inference, would effusively rush themselves up into each other arms if they would happen to meet in a desert, among Cannibles.
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Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty interests and the search of perishable things, and with that they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self so hardly worthy of it.
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We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
November 15, 1837
Died:
March 26, 1890
(aged 52)
Bio:
Afrikan Aleksandrovich Špir was a Russian Neo-Kantian philosopher of Greek-German descent who wrote primarily in German. His book Denken und Wirklichkeit exerted a "lasting impact" on the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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