Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs.… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
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… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs.… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share
