Jan Smuts Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of life. Nay, more; it is the ladder of the soul and in a curious way the source of religion. From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon of the Mount. We may trul say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain.”
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“A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself”
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“Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.”
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“Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.”
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“...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.”
-- Jan Smuts
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