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From Quotes by Emile Durkheim
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy…
- 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…
- 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…
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