It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
EMILE DURKHEIMFaith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
More Emile Durkheim Quotes
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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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That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.
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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
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One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or – which is the same thing – when his goal is infinity.
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When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
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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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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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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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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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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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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
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