There Is No Sociology Worthy Of The

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.

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.

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.

It Is Science, And Not Religion, Which Has Taught Men That Things Are Complex And Difficult To Understand.

Socialism Is Not A Science, A Sociology In Miniature: It Is A Cry Of Pain.