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

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.

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

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group.

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

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

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