African Spir on Life

"Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty interests and the search of perishable things, and with that they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self so hardly worthy of it."

"Devoting ourselves too much to an exclusive search of a material happiness, of ephemerous goods, one fails to appreciate the truerealities of life and one let the spirit decline and dry up"

"If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations , its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen"

"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."

"A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it."

"The feeling of solidarity that is born amidst a community rest on the feeling of antagonism arouse by those who are opposed to it. Most of the time we only adhere to a party or a group, in order to better differentiate ourselves of another."

"It is to our lack of proper content , of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life."

"A same breath will give life to men, when they will will have succeeded in overcoming all that divide them et put them in opposition one another; then they will have a feeling of the limits of their individuality wonderfully widen and will be able to unite in a beneficial atmosphere of harmony and brotherly concord."

"When a man make of his personnal interests the mainspring of his life and he is greedy to make use of everything that can benefit him, he naturally enters into conflict with other persons, acting also in their interests, hence the disagreements that can become a hundred years old, and drive whole generations to a mutual hate."

"It is erroneous to consider the multiplication of needs as a sign of progress, to think that it is necessary to arouse in the people still unpolished , new needs to bring them to a more civilised life. Similarly it is erroneous to expect to measure the degree of culture of a man to the degree of refinement he make in his methods of pleasure"

"Until now, exterior authority still domine too much in the relationships between men, as well as in their spiritual life. This is due to the fact that we regard authority, in all fields, as being what makes the law , because in the empirical field, it is always what come first , may it be a force, an individual or an argument, that is winning."

"Moral improvement require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ; For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear."