Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
EMILE DURKHEIMSadness 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.
More Emile Durkheim Quotes
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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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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.
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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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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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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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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
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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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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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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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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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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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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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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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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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