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.
EMILE DURKHEIMMan 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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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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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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When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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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.
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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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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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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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That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.
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Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
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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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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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Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.
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Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.
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