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.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

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.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

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.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.