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.
EMILE DURKHEIMOur whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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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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It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
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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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A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.
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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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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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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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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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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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When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical 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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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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