Irrespective Of Any External, Regulatory Force, Our

Our Excessive Tolerance With Regard To Suicide Is Due To The Fact That, Since The State Of Mind From Which It Springs Is A General One, We Cannot Condemn It Without Condemning Ourselves; We Are Too Saturated With It Not Partly To Excuse It.

It Is Too Great Comfort Which Turns A Man Against Himself. Life Is Most Readily Renounced At The Time And Among The Classes Where It Is Least Harsh.

It Is Only By Historical Analysis That We Can Discover What Makes Up Man, Since It Is Only In The Course Of History That He Is Formed.

The Roles Of Art, Morality, Religion, Political Faith, Science Itself Are Not To Repair Organic Exhaustion Nor To Provide Sound Functioning Of The Organs. All This Supraphysical Life Is Built And Expanded Not Because Of The Demands Of The Cosmic Environment But Because Of The Demands Of The Social Environment.

Man Seeks To Learn, And Man Kills Himself Because Of The Loss Of Cohesion In His Religious Society; He Does Not Kill Himself Because Of His Learning. It Is Certainly Not The Learning He Acquires That Disorganizes Religion; But The Desire For Knowledge Wakens Because Religion Becomes Disorganized.