African Spir on Ethics

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

"The supreme blossoming of character lies in renounciation and abnegation of self"

"The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness"

"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 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."

"Whether we had a moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize , having no consideration for others , than we physically are by a sickening smell."

"If we accomplish a good deed, a charity in the hope of future rewards, or with a more or less confessed ulterior motive to profit from personal advantages , we are probably doing a useful thing, but which is devoided of any truly moral character " - p .39."

"Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour humanity."

"The distinction between right and wrong , is nothing else than their unyielding opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond every empirical data . It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish the real basis of morality."

"If the confusion of spirits, obsession of consciousness , abandonment of religious and moral principles was to become widespread, the consequences could be become such that we would finally see crop up in the very heart of the civilisation, a new and apalling barbarism capable to engulf all the acquisitions of the past."

"In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice."