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 DURKHEIMMelancholy 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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When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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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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The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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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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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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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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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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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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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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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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If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
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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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A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
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