Placide Tempels Quotes on Life
Placide Frans Tempels was a Belgian Franciscan missionary in the Belgian Congo and the author of Bantu Philosophy, published in 1945, the first book to argue at length that the peoples of central Africa possessed an articulated philosophical worldview rather than a merely primitive religion. This page collects quotes attributed to Placide Tempels on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Placide Tempels:
“Bantu thought is centered on the concept of vital force.”
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Attributed to Placide Tempels:
“Being, for the Bantu, is force; to be is to be a force.”
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Attributed to Placide Tempels:
“To strengthen life is the highest moral aim.”
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Attributed to Placide Tempels:
“The community is the matrix in which each person grows.”