The First And Most Basic Rule Is

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.

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.

Religious Representations Are Collective Representations Which Express Collective Realities.

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

Melancholy Suicide. - This Is Connected With A General State Of Extreme Depression And Exaggerated Sadness, Causing The Patient No Longer To Realize Sanely The Bonds Which Connect Him With People And Things About Him. Pleasures No Longer Attract.