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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.

Emile Durkheim

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
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Cloth Creation Ourselves Reach Sadness World
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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Attract Connection Depression Melancholy Patience Pleasure Realize Suicide
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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Collection Compatible Humor People Psychology Sadness Science Society
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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Abyss Capacity Force Regular
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
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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Death Known Negative Positive Production Result Suicide Victim
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
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Crime Knowledge Philosophy
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
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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Abandonment Comparison Imagination Reality Value
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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Law Moral Necessary Rule Value
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
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Describe Description Human Science Scientific Society Type
When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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Beginning Discover Lose Man Mindset Mirror
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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Character History Name Sociology Worth
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
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Complex Difficult Man Religion Science Teaching Understand
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
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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Curiosity Mindset Question Risk

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