The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

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

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

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

If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.