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.
EMILE DURKHEIMI 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.
More Emile Durkheim Quotes
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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.
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A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.
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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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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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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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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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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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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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Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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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.
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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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The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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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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