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.
EMILE DURKHEIMSocial life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
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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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When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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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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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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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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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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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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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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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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The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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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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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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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
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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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