It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
EMILE DURKHEIMMan 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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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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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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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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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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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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Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
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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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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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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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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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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.
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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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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.
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