It Is Science, And Not

Our Excessive Tolerance With Regard To Suicide Is Due To The Fact That, Since The State Of Mind From Which It Springs Is A General One, We Cannot Condemn It Without Condemning Ourselves; We Are Too Saturated With It Not Partly To Excuse It.

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

We Do Not Condemn It Because It Is A Crime, But It Is A Crime Because We Condemn It.

It Is Not Human Nature Which Can Assign The Variable Limits Necessary To Our Needs. They Are Thus Unlimited So Far As They Depend On The Individual Alone. Irrespective Of Any External Regulatory Force, Our Capacity For Feeling Is In Itself An Insatiable And Bottomless Abyss.

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.