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Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

Emile Durkheim

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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Abyss Capacity Force Regular
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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Circular Generation Improvement Movement Order
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
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
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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Expression Reality Religious Representation
At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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Logic Relation Religion
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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Death Known Negative Positive Production Result Suicide Victim
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
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
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
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
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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Belief Community Moral Relative Religion System
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
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
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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Goal Infinity Oneself Walk
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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Activity Appearance Imagination Man Meditation Production Surround

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