Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.