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.
EMILE DURKHEIMEach 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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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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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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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.
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The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.
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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 man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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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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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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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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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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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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