African Spir on Philosophy

"To spend for destruction ten times more than for instruction, such is the fashion in our time; and men seriously regard themsleves as rational beings !"

"A good man never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives in eternity."

"The appalling and shameful scene of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness."

"To be effective, morality has to be reasoned . To want to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value."

"On the account that one person advocate and want something, it does not follow that others have to want it too; only the postulates of reason and certitude are identicals, invariables, and can always be of use to everyone as a fulcrum with a view to a free agreement ."

"Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty , he is trying to fill his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches , is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down , to put oneself on a false scent or trail."