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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Emile Durkheim

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
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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Death Escape Grace Hallucination Imagination Kill Mystery Obedience Patient Suicide
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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Birth Essential Religion Society Soul
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
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
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Expression Reality Religious Representation
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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Analysis Built Himself History Make Up Man
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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Character History Name Sociology Worth
At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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Logic Relation Religion
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.
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Cling Group Life Live Man Object Social Society Solidarity Vanish
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
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Complex Difficult Man Religion Science Teaching Understand
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 man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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Activity Man Meditation Surrounding
When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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Beginning Discover Lose Man Mindset Mirror
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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Belief Community Moral Relative Religion System
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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Achievement Difficult Enjoyment Known Man Wisdom
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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Curiosity Mindset Question Risk

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