To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
EMILE DURKHEIMIt is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
More Emile Durkheim Quotes
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When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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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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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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One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or – which is the same thing – when his goal is infinity.
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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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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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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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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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.
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The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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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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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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