Quotes by Petre P. Negulescu

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What will be able to replace the perishing religions in the intellectual and moral development of mankind? The answer to this question is: art.

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More than once the observation has been made that the arts sweeten morals, that their practice and cultivation excludes cruelty in relationships between people, that is, excludes insociability.

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Successes, in addition to their good sides, also have bad or even dangerous sides. They actually make people too optimistic and push them down paths that are not always healthy.

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Human societies do not make effective progress, progress that does not consist only in superficial changes in the external forms of their life, only to the extent that the people who compose them rise above the ancestral selfishness of zoological origin, they become altruistic, more full of respect and love, more capable of justice and generosity towards each other.

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In the search for truth, the human mind is driven by aspirations, which no success, no matter how brilliant, can fully satisfy, and no fall, no matter how painful, can completely quell.

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Errors are the steps of the ladder, so difficult to climb, that lead to the truth.