When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

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.

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

For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.

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

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

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.