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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

Emile Durkheim

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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Character Live Man Melancholy Sadness Sorrow
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.
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Absurd Drink Health Himself Language Perfection Person Sick Thinking Time
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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Attachment High Himself Man Pressure
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
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
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
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
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Autonomy Distinguish Person Relative Subject
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
At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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Logic Relation Religion
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
The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.
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Achievement Difficult Enjoyment Known Man Wisdom
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
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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Act Change Define Different End Identity Nature Similar System
The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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Basic Fact Rule Social
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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Action Belief Determination Opinion Phenomenon Religious State
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

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