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.
EMILE DURKHEIMEven one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.
More Emile Durkheim Quotes
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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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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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It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
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The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
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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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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.
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The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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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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The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.
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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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