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 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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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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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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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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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.
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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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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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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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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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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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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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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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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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