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Man Quotes by Emile Durkheim
- 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.…
- 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…
- The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in…
- 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…
- 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…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle