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Maniacal suicide. -This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

Emile Durkheim

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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Birth Essential Religion Society Soul
When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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Beginning Discover Lose Man Mindset Mirror
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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Autonomy Distinguish Person Relative Subject
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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Environment Mindset Ourselves Social
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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Cling Group Life Live Man Object Social Society Solidarity Vanish
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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Assign Capacity Feeling Human Nature Ourselves Variable
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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Enough Establishment Experiment Law Observation Willing
Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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Cry Miniature Pain Science Social Sociology
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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Absurd Drink Health Himself Language Perfection Person Sick Thinking Time
The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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Basic Fact Rule Social
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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Activity Man Meditation Surrounding
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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Act Expression General Personal Phenomenon Social Suicide Victim
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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Comparison Man Obligation Religion
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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Abandonment Comparison Imagination Reality Value
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
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Division Labour Life Social Source
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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Analysis Built Himself History Make Up Man

Maniacal suicide. -This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

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Maniacal suicide. -This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

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