Occupation: Philosopher Birth: November 15, 1837 Death: March 26, 1890
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them..
To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a ….
The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer….
It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice..
The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It….
The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher con….
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 re….
Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or ta….
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 compas….
To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spi….
Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the….
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 invol….
If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt hims….
Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all ….
As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will….
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man..
There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and ….
Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for….
The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instinct….
It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment..
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed ….