The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
AFRIKAN SPIRThe realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
More Afrikan Spir Quotes
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Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that (“et avec cela”, Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self (“moi”, Fr.) so hardly worthy (“digne”, Fr.) of it.
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The principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science.”
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The brute appears (or come forward, “apparait”, Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every (“toute”, Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.
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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 (“qu’on lui donne”, Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.
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When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc – added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained).
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They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of “science”… We would not (On ne saurait”, Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!
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The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends.
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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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The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.
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It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future… – “pourra”, Fr.) build justice.
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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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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 more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.
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The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity.
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The undertakings enter unto (“les engagements contractés”, Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly (“éventuellement”, Fr.) in another.
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