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

Emile Durkheim

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
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
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Division Labour Life Social Source
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
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
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Describe Description Human Science Scientific Society Type
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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Assign Capacity Feeling Human Nature Ourselves Variable
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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Argument Evidence Faith Reason Shock
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
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
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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Law Moral Necessary Rule Value
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
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
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Comfortable Greatness Harsh Time
Melancholy suicide. – This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.
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Attract Connection Depression Melancholy Patience Pleasure Realize Suicide
The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
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Country Delight Earth Sadness Time Trial True World
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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Birth Essential Religion Society Soul
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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Finding Lose Moral People
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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Economics Freedom Liberty Myself Profit

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