The Totality Of Beliefs And Sentiments Common

That Men Have An Interest In Knowing The World Which Surrounds Them, And Consequently That Their Reflection Should Have Been Applied To It At An Early Date, Is Something That Everyone Will Readily Admit.

The Man Whose Whole Activity Is Diverted To Inner Meditation Becomes Insensible To All His Surroundings.

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.

Science Cannot Describe Individuals, But Only Types. If Human Societies Cannot Be Classified, They Must Remain Inaccessible To Scientific Description.

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