One Does Not Advance When One Walks

It Is Too Great Comfort Which Turns A Man Against Himself. Life Is Most Readily Renounced At The Time And Among The Classes Where It Is Least Harsh.

There Is A Collective As Well As An Individual Humor Inclining Peoples To Sadness Or Cheerfulness, Making Them See Things In Bright Or Somber Lights. In Fact, Only Society Can Pass A Collective Opinion On The Value Of Human Life; For This The Individual Is Incompetent.

Our Whole Social Environment Seems To Us To Be Filled With Forces Which Really Exist Only In Our Own Minds.

A Religion Is A Unified System Of Beliefs And Practices Relative To Sacred Things, That Is To Say, Things Set Apart And Forbidden-beliefs And Practices Which Unite Into One Single Moral Community Called A Church, All Those Who Adhere To Them.

Man Cannot Become Attached To Higher Aims And Submit To A Rule If He Sees Nothing Above Him To Which He Belongs. To Free Him From All Social Pressure Is To Abandon Him To Himself And Demoralize Him.