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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Emile Durkheim

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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Environment Mindset Ourselves Social
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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Abandonment Comparison Imagination Reality Value
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.
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Analysis Built Himself History Make Up Man
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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Definition Goal Happiness Pursue State
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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Law Moral Necessary Rule Value
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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Force Law Necessary
Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.
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Action Belief Determination Opinion Phenomenon Religious State
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.
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Fact Mindset Oneself Regard Tolerance
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
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Complex Difficult Man Religion Science Teaching Understand
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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Activity Man Meditation Surrounding
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
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Character Live Man Melancholy Sadness Sorrow
A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.
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Curiosity Mindset Question Risk
The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.
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Achievement Difficult Enjoyment Known Man Wisdom
I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.
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Economics Freedom Liberty Myself Profit
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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Expression Reality Religious Representation
The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result
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Death Known Negative Positive Production Result Suicide Victim

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