Melancholy suicide. – This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.
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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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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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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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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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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When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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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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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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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 first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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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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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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It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
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A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.
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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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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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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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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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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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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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