African Spir - Humanity Quotes

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So many really divine individuals humanity has not already produced! Heros in the moral sense, who never got tired to practice renouncement and charity; bright intelligence who opened to the mind new ways and horizons; poets and wonderful artists, who created for him the image of an ideal world, the reflect of perfection. These are as many proofs of the presence of the absolute in the midst of humanity, for him that does not discover the immediate proof of that in himself.

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There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible; now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim.

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The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

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As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards the accomplishment of its true destinies.

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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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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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Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heroes who do honor humanity.

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What determinate events is, beside national, dynastic and particular egoism, the instinct of domination and conquest, in one word, force. Judging by the history of humanity, harms that men have had to suffer, harms that men have to suffer by their nature are minute in comparison to these they inflict to each others. The most fantastic imagination might not fabricate some cruelties, injustices and perfidies that men have not exceeded in practice.

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When under the influence of certain reasons (alcohol, war, etc.), the low instincts are unbridled, the brute appears and rule over, stifling every noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin of any humanity in man.

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The social organization of work is the most complicated and difficult problem that humanity has ever had to solve. It being possible to realize that organization neither by violence, nor by merely external or legal measures, it require the free participation of all to the joint work, and, consequently, to a regeneration of men that bring them to overcome their selfishness and understand their duty towards themselves and towards the community.

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