It Is Only By Historical Analysis That

An Act Cannot Be Defined By The End Sought By The Actor, For An Identical System Of Behaviour May Be Adjustable To Too Many Different Ends Without Altering Its Nature.

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.

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

Man Could Not Live If He Were Entirely Impervious To Sadness. Many Sorrows Can Be Endured Only By Being Embraced, And The Pleasure Taken In Them Naturally Has A Somewhat Melancholy Character.

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.