Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.


Democracy in America (ed. 1847)


Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are...

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are...

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are...

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are...