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

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

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes itself heard only to give us orders and establish prohibitions, we cannot recognize our own voices; the very tone in which it speaks to us warns us that it expresses something within us that is not of ourselves.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

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

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.