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

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.

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.

It seemed everything would be alright after all.

People who are afraid to become gods say “it's impossible

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait

Peace out, enjoy life and live the adventure, boom.

I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.

If the enemy opens the door, you must race in.