Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
EMILE DURKHEIMTo pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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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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There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
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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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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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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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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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The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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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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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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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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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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