African Spir Short Quotes

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It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may build justice.

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In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal good.

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The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness

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It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

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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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The supreme blossoming of character lies in renunciation and abnegation of self.

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A good man never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives in eternity.

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

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

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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms of politeness are necessary as a substitute to benevolence.

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

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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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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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Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

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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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The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

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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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Place a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.

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We would not permanently change by violence a state of affairs; we can repress resistances for a certain time, but not attain thus a lasting result.

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To spend for destruction ten times more than for instruction, such is the fashion in our time; and men seriously regard themselves as rational beings!

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Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.

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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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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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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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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 divine element manifests itself in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence religious.

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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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The appalling and shameful scene of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciousness.

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