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

Emile Durkheim

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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Cloth Creation Ourselves Reach Sadness World
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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Force Law Necessary
Maniacal suicide. -This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.
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Death Escape Grace Hallucination Imagination Kill Mystery Obedience Patient Suicide
Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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Cry Miniature Pain Science Social Sociology
At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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Logic Relation Religion
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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Character History Name Sociology Worth
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 man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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Beginning Discover Lose Man Mindset Mirror
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
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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Activity Appearance Imagination Man Meditation Production Surround
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 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
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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Comparison Man Obligation Religion
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
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 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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