“Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.”

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

“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 e...”

“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 th...”

“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 comm...”

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

“Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

“So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, 'Well, I'll tell you, Forrest, a...”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”

“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“Westley stared at him carefully. VictorI understand how you must feel but the rules Dracula upheldWere the same very rules that allowed the Dark World to fall, he finished coldly.”

“Number rules the universe.”

“By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself”