African Spir - Life Quotes

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Moral improvement require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer; For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse that already threaten, the whole civilization will risks to disappear.

African Spir
Devoting ourselves too much to an exclusive search of a material happiness, of ephemeral goods, one fails to appreciate the true realities of life and one let the spirit decline and dry up.

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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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Until now, external authority still dominate too much in the relationships between men, as well as in their spiritual life. This is due to the fact that we regard authority, in all fields, as being what makes the law, because in the empirical field, it is always what come first, may it be a force, an individual or an argument, that is winning.

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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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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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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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It is erroneous to consider the multiplication of needs as a sign of progress, to think that it is necessary to arouse in the people still unpolished, new needs to bring them to a more civilized life. Similarly it is erroneous to expect to measure the degree of culture of a man to the degree of refinement he make in his methods of pleasure.

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Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection.

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Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happiness and, being by essence empty, he is trying to fill his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches, is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down, to put oneself on a false scent or trail.

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When a man make of his personal interests the mainspring of his life and he is greedy to make use of everything that can benefit him, he naturally enters into conflict with other persons, acting also in their interests, hence the disagreements that can become a hundred years old, and drive whole generations to a mutual hate.

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It is to our lack of proper content, of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise we experience boredom, which is nothing else than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.

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A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.

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A same breath will give life to men, when they will will have succeeded in overcoming all that divide them and put them in opposition one another; then they will have a feeling of the limits of their individuality wonderfully widen and will be able to unite in a beneficial atmosphere of harmony and brotherly concord.

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In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discover and invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development of the faculties of the intelligence, the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental things.

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In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.

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