African Spir - Moral Quotes

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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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The concept of absolute, hence springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought in the field of science.

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The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbor as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

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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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If we recognize, following the materialist theories, that only the physical nature exist, and that man contain no higher essence, divine, which, by one side of his being, raise him above his animal nature, it would be a question neither of obligation, nor of moral responsibility; then the supreme good would consist for him, indeed, to satisfy his appetites and his natural inclinations, to look for the pleasure and flee from pain. In this case, there could be neither religion nor moral, since religion is precisely what raise man above vulgar reality, and that moral is the very negation of selfishness.

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The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.

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The duty of the State is double; it must strive to perfect its member, by promoting their intellectual and moral progress, and try to keep the right and the justice in their mutual relationships.

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It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value. Any attempt to rise up outwardly above others, or to want to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace in that way to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.

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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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The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science"… We would not imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!

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To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

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The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness

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The belief that the conditioned derives from the unconditioned, wrong from right, represent the most fatal error and the one most fraught with consequences that is. This believe gave rise to incalculable harms; it has obliterated the religious consciousness and warped the moral judgement; moreover, it has created an abyss between science and religion, and brought generations of men to atheism.

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There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

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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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It is from the education of the new generations that we will especially be able to expect a real moral progress. It is important first of all to develop in it self-control, love of truth and solidarity spirit.

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If the present civilization does not acquire some stable moral foundations, its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilizations that have preceded it, and which have fallen.

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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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If man do not find in himself the required force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to put himself in the conditions suitable to assist his self-control.

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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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If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.

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If we accomplish a good deed, a charity in the hope of [getting] future rewards, or with a more or less confessed ulterior motive to profit from personal advantages, we are probably doing a useful thing, but which is devoided of any truly moral character.

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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.

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Injustice having always hold sway on earth, there are some who imagine that the existing social order may subsist forever. Whether this order could last until now, this was mainly due to the conviction of people, that it was of divine institution. But this belief is vanishing, and with it the only moral support of the actual order will collapse, leaving only brutal forces opposed to each others clashing, with no peaceful way out.

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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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