What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one’s hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change”, Fr.)
AFRIKAN SPIRThe most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain – fratricidal war.
More Afrikan Spir Quotes
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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms (“formes”, Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
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That vie with one another (“qui rivalisent à l’envi,” Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder (“engins meurtriers”, Fr).
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There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.
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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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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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Place (or put) 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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The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge.
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The more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.
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It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish (“pourront être édifiées”, Fr.) the real basis of morality.
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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.
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The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue.
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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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Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part – a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection”
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The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
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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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