A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits … - African Spir

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

When I'm smiling and having fun, that's when you should have a problem. If I'm out there frowning and looking mean, that's when you know you've beat me - because I'm not having fun. I've been playing basketball since I was three. Everybody since I was three tried to tell me to stop smiling. Even my dad. My dad apologized to me when I was ten.

African Spir

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

Donne, Possibility, Reflection, Sacrifice, Simple

Same Author Quotes

It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr. ), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr. ) 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.

Boredom, Elses, Faute, Feelings, Mirages, Needs

It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr. ) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr. ); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.

Country, Equally, Governing, Liberty, Long, Ressortissants

The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science". . . We would not (On ne saurait", Fr. ) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!

Art, Imagine, Men, Raise, War

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

Cain, Fratricidal, Humanity, Supreme, Urgent, War

Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue", Fr. ); all that involve (or imply. . . ) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

Contradictory, Destined, Fatally, Lasts, Long, Running