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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.

Emile Durkheim

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
Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.
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Attachment High Himself Man Pressure
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
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
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
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
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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Goal Infinity Oneself Walk
By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.
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Break Character Continue Fear Separate
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
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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Comfortable Greatness Harsh Time
The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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Basic Fact Rule Social
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
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Circular Generation Improvement Movement Order
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
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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Expression Reality Religious Representation
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
At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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Logic Relation Religion

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