The Wise Man, Knowing How To Enjoy

A Society Whose Members Are United By The Fact That They Think In The Same Way In Regard To The Sacred World And Its Relations With The Profane World, And By The Fact That They Translate These Common Ideas Into Common Practices, Is What Is Called A Church. In All History, We Do Not Find A Single Religion Without A Church.

Science Cannot Describe Individuals, But Only Types. If Human Societies Cannot Be Classified, They Must Remain Inaccessible To Scientific Description.

Society Is Not A Mere Sum Of Individuals. Rather, The System Formed By Their Association Represents A Specific Reality Which Has Its Own Characteristics... The Group Thinks, Feels, And Acts Quite Differently From The Way In Which Its Members Would Were They Isolated. If, Then, We Begin With The Individual, We Shall Be Able To Understand Nothing Of What Takes Place In The Group.

Man Cannot Become Attached To Higher Aims And Submit To A Rule If He Sees Nothing Above Him To Which He Belongs. To Free Him From All Social Pressure Is To Abandon Him To Himself And Demoralize Him.

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.