The Man Whose Whole Activity Is Diverted

Man Could Not Live If He Were Entirely Impervious To Sadness. Many Sorrows Can Be Endured Only By Being Embraced, And The Pleasure Taken In Them Naturally Has A Somewhat Melancholy Character.

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.

The Man Whose Whole Activity Is Diverted To Inner Meditation Becomes Insensible To All His Surroundings. His Passions Are Mere Appearances, Being Sterile. They Are Dissipated In Futile Imaginings, Producing Nothing External To Themselves.

A Society Whose Members Are United By The Fact That They Think In The Same Way In Regard To The Sacred World And Its Relations With The Profane World, And By The Fact That They Translate These Common Ideas Into Common Practices, Is What Is Called A Church. In All History, We Do Not Find A Single Religion Without A Church.

Melancholy Suicide. - This Is Connected With A General State Of Extreme Depression And Exaggerated Sadness, Causing The Patient No Longer To Realize Sanely The Bonds Which Connect Him With People And Things About Him. Pleasures No Longer Attract.