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

Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.

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

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

At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?

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

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.