We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
EMILE DURKHEIMThere is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.
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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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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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The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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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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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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Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
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It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
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Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.
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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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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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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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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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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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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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It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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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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There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
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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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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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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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Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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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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When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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