That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times,
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of
The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are
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,
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it
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