The Man Whose Whole Activity

For A Long Time It Has Been Known That The First Systems Of Representations With Which Men Have Pictured To Themselves The World And Themselves Were Of Religious Origin. There Is No Religion That Is Not A Cosmology At The Same Time That It Is A Speculation Upon Divine Things. If Philosophy And The Sciences Were Born Of Religion, It Is Because Religion Began By Taking The Place Of The Sciences And Philosophy.

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 Infinity; This Does Not Change Its Nature. When One Feels Such Pleasure In Non-existence, One's Inclination Can Be Completely Satisfied Only By Completely Ceasing To Exist.

When Morals Are Sufficient, Law Is Unnecessary; When Morals Are Insufficient, Law Is Unenforceable.

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.

An Act Cannot Be Defined By The End Sought By The Actor, For An Identical System Of Behaviour May Be Adjustable To Too Many Different Ends Without Altering Its Nature.