The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.