Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul… — 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
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has truly practiced a religion knows very well that it is [the set of regularly repeated actions that make up… — Émile Durkheim Copy Share Image
At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations;… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand. — 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 Image
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — 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 a material… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
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 Image
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
