That Men Have An Interest In Knowing

Each Victim Of Suicide Gives His Act A Personal Stamp Which Expresses His Temperament, The Special Conditions In Which He Is Involved, And Which, Consequently, Cannot Be Explained By The Social And General Causes Of The Phenomenon.

From Top To Bottom Of The Ladder, Greed Is Aroused Without Knowing Where To Find Ultimate Foothold. Nothing Can Calm It, Since Its Goal Is Far Beyond All It Can Attain. Reality Seems Valueless By Comparison With The Dreams Of Fevered Imaginations; Reality Is Therefore Abandoned.

At First Sight, One Does Not See What Relations There Can Be Between Religion And Logic.

A Social Fact Is Every Way Of Acting, Fixed Or Not, Capable Of Exercising On The Individual An External Constraint; Or Again, Every Way Of Acting Which Is General Throughout A Given Society, While At The Same Time Existing In Its Own Right Independent Of Its Individual Manifestations.

One Does Not Advance When One Walks Toward No Goal, Or - Which Is The Same Thing - When His Goal Is Infinity.