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It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 Durkheim Quotes)
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
Man’s characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body’s yoke, but is subject to that of society (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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 (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment (Emile Durkheim Quotes)
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