The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
EMILE DURKHEIMIt 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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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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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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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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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 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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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 man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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