Afrikan Spir on each
“It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.”
More Afrikan Spir quotes
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir Thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information).
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir 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.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, – “voulue”, Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -“favoriser”, Fr.) his self-control.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, – “impérissable”, Fr.) good.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate).
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish (“pourront être édifiées”, Fr.) the real basis of morality.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir 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.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment).
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir Having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others (“autrui”, Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at (“visant à”, Fr.) expansion or hegemony.
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