Quotes from African Spir

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

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.

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

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.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

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

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

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.