African Spir - Spirit Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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