Man Is A Moral Being,

Man's Characteristic Privilege Is That The Bond He Accepts Is Not Physical But Moral; That Is, Social. He Is Governed Not By A Material Environment Brutally Imposed On Him, But By A Conscience Superior To His Own, The Superiority Of Which He Feels. Because The Greater, Better Part Of His Existence Transcends The Body, He Escapes The Body's Yoke, But Is Subject To That Of Society.

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.

Although Our Moral Conscience Is A Part Of Our Consciousness, We Do Not Feel Ourselves On An Equality With It. In This Voice Which Makes Itself Heard Only To Give Us Orders And Establish Prohibitions, We Cannot Recognize Our Own Voices; The Very Tone In Which It Speaks To Us Warns Us That It Expresses Something Within Us That Is Not Of Ourselves.

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.

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 Is Least Harsh.