Men Have Been Obliged To Make For

There Is No Society Known Where A More Or Less Developed Criminality Is Not Found Under Different Forms. No People Exists Whose Morality Is Not Daily Infringed Upon. We Must Therefore Call Crime Necessary And Declare That It Cannot Be Non-existent, That The Fundamental Conditions Of Social Organization, As They Are Understood, Logically Imply It.

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.

There Is No Sociology Worthy Of The Name Which Does Not Possess A Historical Character.

The Man Whose Whole Activity Is Diverted To Inner Meditation Becomes Insensible To All His Surroundings.

Men Have Been Obliged To Make For Themselves A Notion Of What Religion Is, Long Before The Science Of Religions Started Its Methodical Comparisons.