Reality Seems Valueless By Comparison With The

To Pursue A Goal Which Is By Definition Unattainable Is To Condemn Oneself To A State Of Perpetual Unhappiness.

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 Is Only A Moral Being Because He Lives In Society, Since Morality Consists In Solidarity With The Group, And Varies According To That Solidarity. Cause All Social Life To Vanish, And Moral Life Would Vanish At The Same Time, Having No Object To Cling To.

It Is A Quite Remarkable Fact That The Great Religions Of The Most Civilized Peoples Are More Deeply Fraught With Sadness Than The Simpler Beliefs Of Earlier Societies. This Certainly Does Not Mean That The Current Of Pessimism Is Eventually To Submerge The Other, But It Proves That It Does Not Lose Ground And That It Does Not Seem Destined To Disappear.

The Man Whose Whole Activity Is Diverted To Inner Meditation Becomes Insensible To All His Surroundings. His Passions Are Mere Appearances, Being Sterile. They Are Dissipated In Futile Imaginings, Producing Nothing External To Themselves.