Science Cannot Describe Individuals, But Only Types.

Too Cheerful A Morality Is A Loose Morality; It Is Appropriate Only To Decadent Peoples And Is Found Only Among Them.

What History Teaches Us Is That Man Does Not Change Arbitrarily; He Does Not Transform Himself At Will On Hearing The Voices Of Inspired Prophets. The Reason Is That All Change, In Colliding With The Inherited Institutions Of The Past, Is Inevitably Hard And Laborious; Consequently It Only Takes Place In Response To The Demands Of Necessity. For Change To Be Brought About It Is Not Enough That It Should Be Seen As Desirable; It Must Be The Product Of Changes Within The Whole Network Of Diverse Casual Relationships Which Then Determine The Situation Of Man.

Man Seeks To Learn, And Man Kills Himself Because Of The Loss Of Cohesion In His Religious Society; He Does Not Kill Himself Because Of His Learning. It Is Certainly Not The Learning He Acquires That Disorganizes Religion; But The Desire For Knowledge Wakens Because Religion Becomes Disorganized.

Man Is A Moral Being, Only Because He Lives In Society. Let All Social Life Disappear And Morality Will Disappear With It.

Men Have Been Obliged To Make For Themselves A Notion Of What Religion Is, Long Before The Science Of Religions Started Its Methodical Comparisons.