One Does Not Advance When

Sadness Does Not Inhere In Things; It Does Not Reach Us From The World And Through Mere Contemplation Of The World. It Is A Product Of Our Own Thought. We Create It Out Of Whole Cloth.

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, For Example, He Has An Unreasonable And Absurd Desire To Drink Or Steal Or Use Abusive Language; But All His Other Acts And All His Other Thoughts Are Strictly Correct.

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.

Men Have Been Obliged To Make For Themselves A Notion Of What Religion Is, Long Before The Science Of Religions Started Its Methodical Comparisons.

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.