Best Emile Durkheim Sayings
- Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities. Collective
- The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath… Causes
- 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 intellectual… Active
- Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of… Acquires
- Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. Argument
- There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights.… Bright
- The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of… Abode
- The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one… According
- One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of… Absorb
- There are two types of men: the great and the small. Great
- The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another,… Distinct
- It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men… All
- Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. Environment
- From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a… Animals