Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

Emile Durkheim

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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
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 Pursue
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

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Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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Abyss Regular
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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Mindset
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
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Obligation
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.
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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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Profit
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.
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Absurd Drink Language
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.
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Cling Object Solidarity Vanish
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
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Autonomy Distinguish Subject
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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Relation
By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.

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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.
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Production
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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Name Sociology

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

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