Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
EMILE DURKHEIMWe do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
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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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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.
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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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The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.
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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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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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When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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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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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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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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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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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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Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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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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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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