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> [It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-is-my-firm-faith-that-man-is-by-nature-going-higher/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [There's no God higher than truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/there-s-no-god-higher-than-truth/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [To see farther, you must climb higher.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/to-see-farther-you-must-climb-higher/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/a-selfish-basis-would-not-serve-the-purpose-of-taking-a-man-higher/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-dignity-of-man-requires-obedience-to-a-higher-law-to-the-strength/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/there-is-a-higher-court-than-courts-of-justice-and-that-is-the-court-2/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-regard-duryodhana-and-his-party-as-the-baser-impulses-in-man-and/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/study-men-following-the-law-of-their-higher-nature-the-law-of-love-so/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/nonviolence-is-the-law-of-our-species-as-violence-is-the-law-of-the/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-found-that-life-persists-in-the-midst-of-destruction-and/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-is-a-mark-of-wisdom-not-to-kick-away-the-very-step-from-which-we/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-only-safe-and-honorable-course-for-a-self-respecting-man-is-to-do/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/ethically-they-had-arrived-at-the-conclusion-that-man-s-supremacy/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-has-reason-discrimination-and-free-will-such-as-it-is-the-brute/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-came-in-contact-with-every-known-indian-anarchist-in-london-their/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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## Other authors on Higher

## More by Mahatma Gandhi

> [I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the-life-even-of-a-snake-i/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/devotion-required-by-the-gita-is-no-soft-hearted-effusiveness/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-nation-being-under-another-nation-can-accept-gifts-and-kick-at-the/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/so-long-as-we-fear-the-outside-world-we-must-cease-to-think-of-swaraj/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/religions-are-not-for-separating-men-from-one-another-they-are-meant/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our-species-we-err-in-copying-the/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-was-only-in-south-africa-that-i-got-over-this-shyness-though-i/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [“Where there is life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/where-there-is-life/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-it-was-wrong-to-seek-god-in-a-stone-how-was-it-right-to-seek-him/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-spirit-of-democracy-cannot-be-established-in-the-midst-of/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/champions-are-made-from-something-they-have-deep-inside-of-them-a/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-motto-is-unite-now-today-if-you-can-fight-if-you-must-but-in-every/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-no-disciples-being-myself-an-aspirant-after-discipleship-and/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

> [Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-becomes-not-the-lord-and-master-of-all-creation-but-he-is-its/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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