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.
EMILE DURKHEIMAt first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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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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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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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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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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By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.
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Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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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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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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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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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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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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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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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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