Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

And to my soul mate, ” he raises his glass, “who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

You cannot win an election without a fight