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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

Emile Durkheim

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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Beginning Discover Lose Man Mindset Mirror
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
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
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Division Labour Life Social Source
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
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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Abyss Capacity Force Regular
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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Force Law Necessary
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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Argument Evidence Faith Reason Shock
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.
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Enough Establishment Experiment Law Observation Willing
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
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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Date Interest Known Man Ready Surround World
Melancholy suicide. – This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.
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Attract Connection Depression Melancholy Patience Pleasure Realize Suicide
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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Birth Essential Religion Society Soul
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 Group Life Live Man Object Social Society Solidarity Vanish
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
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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Disappear Live Man Moral Philosophy Society
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
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Act Expression General Personal Phenomenon Social Suicide Victim

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