Ellen Key Quotes

The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

Even if a country has money and technology, if it is retarded spiritually or morally, we cannot say it is advanced.

We must wait for the slow progress of moral causes

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul being given choice, may exercise it in whatever direction it chooses, for it learns just as well by its mistakes as by right action in the first place, perhaps even better.

A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

History has put America in a position where its national security depends on its further moral growth.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world.

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.