It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Mortality defines the human condition.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.