African Spir on Truth

"Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality."

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

"To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow."

"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 doctrine expounded by me is the true one, but I am not its author. I have only been, so to speak, the soil in which it has germinated and has developed itself with an extreme slowness in the course of long years. Also there has never been such a disproportion between the man and his work than in my case, and what is the saddest , is that one has to suffer because of the incapacity and the weakness of the other. A man more capable than me, possessing this doctrine, would already have stirred the world."

"So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware of their true mission, would want to get on to abolish every politics aiming at expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them formidable armies and crushing war budgets."

"It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value . Any attempt to rise up outwardly above others, or to want to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace in that way to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself."

"The incorporation of every indidual in a collective mechanism of production, would mean the renunciation for man himself of its independence and his dignity as a rational being. The results of such a state of things would be: regression and deterioration in every fields of life. For the true progress consist in the accomplishment of higher ends, et these would be directly made impossible in a coercive social mechanism. Let us think to the fate that, in these conditions, new truths would have in store"