There Is No Sociology Worthy Of The

Irrespective Of Any External, Regulatory Force, Our Capacity For Feeling Is In Itself An Insatiable And Bottomless Abyss.

The Roles Of Art, Morality, Religion, Political Faith, Science Itself Are Not To Repair Organic Exhaustion Nor To Provide Sound Functioning Of The Organs. All This Supraphysical Life Is Built And Expanded Not Because Of The Demands Of The Cosmic Environment But Because Of The Demands Of The Social Environment.

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.

The Term Suicide Is Applied To All Cases Of Death Resulting Directly Or Indirectly From A Positive Or Negative Act Of The Victim Himself, Which He Knows Will Produce This Result

The First And Most Basic Rule Is To Consider Social Facts As Things.