At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

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.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

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.

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.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.